Month: October 2020

Lumps Gone

Yep, those lumps from two posts ago are gone after a dose of doxyrubicin. They went down slowly, but after 3 weeks I can’t feel them at all. In Devo’s oncologist’s words: “Good for her!” She wasn’t too bothered by the chemo and we had a second dose last week. We know it’s temporary but we’re encouraged that she responded so well.

Her eye is still swollen and sight in that eye is gone from the cancer induced glaucoma. We need to watch the pressure and are still dialing the right eye meds. Acupuncture has been working too. It helps me to jokingly think of her as Mad Eye Moody from Harry Potter! Or imagine that she’s got one eye on us and one on the other side.

So for now, we’re enjoying the Fall and happy that she’s happy to keep hanging out with us 🙂

Our First Scare

Well, we had our first big scare this week. Devo’s cancer is affecting her eyes, and in the middle of the night something must have changed. She was very uncomfortable — pacing, eyes squinted shut, obviously hurting. A small dose of tramadol finally helped her rest, but the next day she didn’t want to eat and hid under the stairs all day. She looked just awful, and I wondered if that might be it for her… But the smell of dinner and some warm clam broth brought her around to our happy surprise.

The vet found pressure in her eye and glaucoma. Also low platelets after her doxyrubicyn 7 days ago, so oral prednisone now. And CBD treats. She’s not back to where she was before the scare, but she went to the beach yesterday and still wants to be here with us.