Callie and the chemo round 6

Callie here

I went for round 6 of my chemo last Wednesday. We're a little behind on the blogging!

To start off, we had guests in the car on the usual ride over Lake Potty Train. We had The Sister and two of Momma's younger cousins! Why the extra humans you ask? Well apparently a new little human was born last week and everybody wanted to go see her but the new little human lives on the other side of Lake Potty Train!

Our passengers

So off we went to cross Lake Potty Train! Momma and the rest of our group dropped me off at chemo. Momma told Jennifer, the vet tech, about the incident with my eye! Jennifer was concerned and said she would have Dr. Liz look at my eye.

Momma and the other humans went and saw the cute new little human and wound up leaving me at chemo for longer than normal. It's ok though cause Jennifer gave me Frosty Paws!

Yummers!

I apparently got it all over my ears and Jennifer's pants! But boy oh boy was it yummy!

Momma came and got me while everybody else was getting lunch! Dr. Liz looked at my eye and said it looked ok. I still have to have drops put in four times a day! And no more rubbing my face on the ground!

Once we were done at chemo Momma and I went and caught up with everybody else at lunch!

Momma even gave me a piece of her bacon off her sandwich! But I was more interested in stealing a bite of The Sister's BLT sandwich!

Once everybody was done lunch we hopped back in the car and headed home. Good thing cause boy oh boy was I tired from all my chemo medicine.

Nap time!

We dropped off all our passengers and a short while later we were home and it was dinner time!

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Now in the time between last week and today I have been having alot of tummy trouble. Momma's been having to rinse my backside off pretty regularly, which is no fun!

Saturday night and Sunday morning Momma noticed I was having bloody poop! So she called Dr. Liz and let her know what was going on. Now I'm on another medicine to make me stop having bathroom issues!

Well that is all for now!

Thanks to everybody for the well wishes about my eye!

Sniff ya later,

Callie and Droopy

Callie and the Chemo Round 5 and lots of bad weather

Callie here

I went for round 5 of my chemo today. Chemo went without a hitch but the ride from casa de Cheesehound and back was a little crazy!!!!!

This is what the sky looked like on the way there:

That is a scary looking sky!

Well we made it across Lake Potty Train ok, despite some moments where Momma refused to pet me, claiming she needed both hands on the steering wheel.

We made it to the Dr. Liz's office in one piece. Jennifer, Dr. Liz's vet tech, took me back for chemo and Momma went and ran errands. Got another patch of fur shaved off!!!! Dr. Liz said I'm looking good and responding to chemo well.

Two hours later me and Momma were on our way home or so we thought!! We got on the road to go back across Lake Potty Train. We have to get on a long bridge called the Causeway Bridge, well because of the bad bad weather the bridge was CLOSED!!!!!!!! So Momma quick turned around and made a phone call.

Well what a surprise! We went to Momma's cousin's house and they have two little humans who love me!!!!! I got petted and fed some of a roast beefie sandwich and got to climb a whole bunch of stairs!

Me with the two little humans

I had so much fun with the little humans! The littlest human asked if I was gonna bite her! Momma told her I wouldn't but I would give kisses. Well the little human said she didn't want any kisses!!!

After about two hours of playing with the little humans Momma said that the big bridge was open again and the weather had cleared up enough that we could head home.

Momma and I hopped back in the car and off we went! The weather was still pretty yuckers so I had to help Momma navigate! Finally after being gone from home for hours we made it back!

I'm gonna go lay down now cause Dr. Liz gave me some Benadryl with my chemo and I've been really sleepy.

And just so you don't miss Droopy too much...

I present: Lego Droopy!

Sniff ya later,

Callie and Droopy

Momma update:

Chemo went smoothly! Callie's weight is up and her appetite is still good. She is back on the probiotic only because she's been having bathroom issues again. All in all one of the worst trips across the lake and back ever!

Callie and the Chemo Round 2

Droopy here

Callie had her second round of chemo on Monday.

Callie and Momma drove all the way over Lake Potty Train to see Dr. Liz. Jennifer, Dr. Liz's vet tech, came out and talked to Momma about how Callie had been doing. Momma told Jennifer about the incident of Callie not eating but said once Callie did start eating she felt much better. Jennifer was concerned but glad to hear Callie was doing well. Then she took Callie in the back for her second round of chemo. The vet techs weighed Callie and poked and prodded her, gave Callie the chemo medicine and let her lay down. Momma showed up, paid the bill and home they came. Jennifer did say that Callie had lost 1.5 pounds, which wasn't anything to worry about. Also Callie's lymph nodes shrank 1 centimeter!! Hurray!!!!!! This means that the chemo medicine is doing a good job!!

Callie is sleeping a lot, which is ok. You can kinda see Callie doesn't quite feel her usual crazy happy basset self but we aren't gonna worry! The chemo medicine is hard on Callie and as long as she is eating lots of kibbles and still happy we are ok with that!!

I think it's just an act around Momma. Cause Callie looks all sick and pitiful and then she jumps up and starts rolling around on the ground trying to play.

Sniff ya later,

Droopy (and Callie too)

Callie and the Chemo

Callie here

I thought I would take over the blog and post about my first chemo treatment.

My first chemo treatment was last Monday. Momma and I had to ride all the way across Lake Potty Train.


The ride across Lake Potty Train is pretty long and it takes about an hour to get to the oncologist but I don't mind the ride cause I LOVE riding in the car! One reason the ride is so long is because the bridge across Lake Potty Train is the longest bridge in the world-24 miles long to be exact! Now that's a long walk!

My oncologist is named Dr. Liz Kergosien and she and her staff are very nice and like to love on me the whole time I am there. When we got to the clinic on Monday we had to wait a while for the staff. There was a beautiful boxer named Molly there but she kept growling at me. Guess she didn't want to be friends. After such a long car ride and such a long wait, I signaled to Momma that I needed to leave some pee-mail outside. While we were outside Dr. Liz's vet tech came out and talked to Momma about my treatment, told Momma I'd be about an hour and then took me inside.


The vet techs weighed me, took my temperature, poked and prodded me, checked to make sure my liber and spleen weren't too big. Finally they gave me my chemo medicine and let me lay down. A little while later Momma showed up and home we went!

Dr. Liz warned Momma that my tummy might hurt, I might not want to eat my kibbles, I could throw up, have no energy, have a fever, or have bruises.

Well I was doing ok until Wednesday morning. Momma put my food bowl down and my tummy was hurting a little so I left some of my breakfast. Momma wasn't worried cause Dr. Liz had warned her about it. Dinner time rolled around and I didn't want dinner. Breakfast time Thursday morning and I still wasn't feeling so good. Now Momma was starting to worry. She tried giving me yummy treats but I didn't want any.

Finally for dinner on Thursday Momma cooked me some rice and mixed it with some smooched up canned dog food. It smelled really yummy but I wasn't sure about and only took two bites so Momma gave me some time for my tummy to adjust to the food in my belly. Half an hour later she offered me more food; two more bites and I was done. Momma offered me the plate of food every half hour until it was gone. It took five hours but I finally ate the whole dinner and boy did I feel better!

Momma told me if I hadn't eaten dinner I would have had to go back to Dr. Liz's office where they could have stuck me full of needles!!!!

After a day of not eating then finally getting some food I was finally feeling better and was running around and wagging my tail and cuddling with Momma instead of just sleeping.

Then yesterday Momma said I had to go see Dr. Bell, my normal vet, to get some blood work done. So off we went and everybody at Dr. Bell's office was happy to see me and was glad I was doing so well with chemo. I was happy to see them too! I was wagging my tail and giving kisses. My favorite vet tech, Kelly, took me in the back and took my blood and then we went home!