my short term goal: to not wake up feeling anxiously anxious.
i have no long-term goals right now. just gonna try to get through today.
monday, after waiting and waiting and carrying my phone around and losing it and finding it again, finally, the vet called. she talked to the oncologist at the U of I, and that doctor said that just because our vet didn’t find any cancer cells in mollie’s liver, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any.
so, this morning we are taking her to the U of I where they will do a CT scan to see if there are any other suspicious cells lurking anywhere else. if they can operate on the mass, they will do so. this is if it’s neatly contained in one liver lobe and not wrapped up with other organs.
after they do the operation, i think that’s when they study the tissue to see if it’s cancer or not. i feel that my vet said that even if it is cancer, if they are able to remove it all, mollie could still have a prognosis.
unfortunately, i can’t be entirely sure that’s what she said.
i’m sure they will tell us everything they know there at the U of I, and our vet seemed very optimistic about the whole thing.
oh boy. kevin got up with her (mollie, not the vet) this morning and she was dismayed that she didn’t get any food. she went back to bed, and that’s where she is now.
things to be happy about…well, it didn’t snow! they kept saying on the news that it could snow this morning. that would be a LITTLE MUCH now that the end of april is in sight.
another good thing is that on monday i made it through my third intermittent fasting day. in the book they said it’d get easier, but i still got pretty darned hungry by the time i was allowed a bunch of vegetables and healthy stuff for dinner. the really good thing is that last week i lost two pounds…on the five days of not fasting, i ate plenty.
here’s a link to michael mosley’s PBS show about his explorations of different kinds of fasts, and all the health benefits he thinks there are in doing it. i highly recommend watching it.
micheal mosley’s eat, fast, live longer on PBS
here’s mollie at petsmart, where she stuck her nose under the shelving all around the perimeter of the store, searching out stray bits of food. she found plenty, and was very happy.
shortie, chillaxing at our house.
i was going to get this little dog bed from mom and dad’s house, and while it was lying in the middle of their floor, mollie decided it was the perfect size for her.
attentive doggie on a walk.
oh boy, she just woke up now and is probably going to be wondering where, exactly, all the food is.
wish us luck today.
ok then,
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