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<\/p>\nand just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse…<\/p>\n
they didn’t do the CT scan on mollie because they found that the reason her lymph nodes are so enlarged is because she has lymphoma.\u00a0 this is such aggressive cancer that if it’s not treated, she could die in a month.<\/p>\n
she got her first chemo yesterday.\u00a0 they said it’s not like chemo for people, it shouldn’t be bad, she might throw up or something, but many dogs don’t have any reaction.\u00a0 we’ll find this out in a few days.\u00a0 right now she’s sprawled out on the couch, happily sleeping.\u00a0 so there’s one good thing.<\/p>\n
because they can’t give animals the high doses of chemo, it could go into remission after a month, but then they give her more chemo, because it can come back.<\/p>\n
it WILL come back – the average life expectancy is one year, and then the lymphoma will come back, more aggressively.<\/p>\n
so we’re going to try to make it mollie’s best year ever.\u00a0 lots of treats and walks and whatever she wants, hopefully not letting her put on 300 extra pounds.\u00a0 doggie cocktails.\u00a0 doggie amusement parks.\u00a0 doggie dinners at dog-friendly restaurants.\u00a0 doggie campouts.<\/p>\n
we have to take her to the U of I every week for six months for the chemo – i think it’s only every two weeks after some period of time.<\/p>\n
we took her yesterday at 11:30 and didn’t leave the hospital til after 5:00.\u00a0 they did an ultrasound on the big liver mass – the vet had thought it was part of the lymphoma, but it’s not, it’s yet another kind of cancer.\u00a0 the vet was concerned that it could be something aggressive, but i don’t even remember her saying that last night.\u00a0 maybe we were too over-saturated already with bad news.<\/p>\n
the vet called this morning to say she felt good that the liver tumor is NOT aggressive, it could, indeed, be a harmless growth, and it’s slow-growing.<\/p>\n
after a month of chemo, they will evaluate how she’s progressing, and then they could do the CT scan and remove the mass.<\/p>\n
oh boy.<\/p>\n
here she is, waiting to get the hell outta there last evening.\u00a0 she was SO HAPPY to see us when they finally brought her out that she kept leaping up on me.\u00a0 we had to go back into this room, and wait for the vet to get some drugs in case of side effects.<\/p>\n
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we waited probably another half hour, and mollie was so exhausted that she fell asleep for a little bit.<\/p>\n
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we bought her a mcdonald’s hamburger on the way out of town, and kevin and i also had burgers, then i gave mollie the sack so she could tear the wrappers to shreds.\u00a0 then she slept quite a bit all the way home.<\/p>\n
so…that is all for now.<\/p>\n
ok then,<\/p>\n
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