so far, so good

It's only been two nights since chemo, but Dave is doing well. No GI issues, the eye is looking good, and the gimp hasn't come back! As referenced in Tuesday's post, he was a 'berry' good boy. I took this as we were leaving with my cell phone. The yellow collar around his neck is not a collar, it's actually his ID. Just like humans getting a bracelet in the hospital, Dave gets a collar with his name, address, phone number and patient ID number. Another interesting fact is that the brick and stone building in the background isn't part of the animal hospital, it's actually one of the fraternity houses!

The vet that we've spoken to for the last two weeks is a resident, and she's great! She consulted with the director of the clinical trial, and they decided that Dave can have the diet additions. Mike isn't too happy about the wet food, both because of the expense and general PITA of feeding wet food: the smell, the stains it leaves on dogs' mouths and the bad breath that can result. Dave enjoys it, and we've been supplementing with spinach, swiss chard, sweet potatoes, pumpkin and other goodies. He loves the hard boiled eggs! We can't give any of the supplements because they want to be sure that any results that we see as far as longer remission times are due to the vaccine rather than anything else. We decided to err on the side of traditional medicine in that case, so Dave will be enjoying us cooking for him while still receiving the vaccine.