Guess who's finished with chemo!After last week's debacle, we repeated his blood work locally, and he was good to go. So, back up to Purdue for his fourth and last round of chemo! And, once again, he did GREAT! Better than great, actually, because he didn't flip out in … [Read more...]
Chemo round… more?
Yesterday Lucas was due for his fourth and hopefully final dose of chemo.As you can probably guess, it didn't happen.He had a blood test on Tuesday, and both his platelets and his white counts were too low to administer the chemo. I'm thrilled it saved us the drive to and … [Read more...]
Better behavior through… amputation?
Both Emmett and Lucas had their blood panels this morning at our local vet. Em's is just routine; since he's on oral chemo probably forever, they're monitoring his levels every 10 weeks. Lucas' is part of the weekly checkups he gets for his Purdue chemo trial. With both of them … [Read more...]
On osteosarcoma and chemo
After I wrote the post on osteosarcoma and amputation, I wanted to write one about chemo, too. But it was such a roller coaster those first few weeks. I thought I'd wait until things settled down. And then I realized: Duh. Chemo IS a roller coaster. It's not going to settle down … [Read more...]
Another day, another trip to Purdue
I'm starting to feel like we need to rent an apartment in West Lafayette.Both Emmett and Lucas have appointments today, and I'm very grateful we were able to coordinate for them to go together. It's usually a 10- to 12-hour door-to-door day, and Emmett was originally … [Read more...]