Cancer Dog Dave: Merry Christmas!

About Dave

Dave was my 9 and a half year old rescue Boston Terrier. He was from a puppymill originally, and met none of the AKC standards for a Boston - he was tall and muscular, but had that Boston personality through and through.

Dave was diagnosed with stage Vb lymphosarcoma on January 29th, 2008. The prognosis, assuming chemo was successful, was nine months - October 2008. He quickly went into remission, and was a trooper through his five months of weekly chemo treatment. He remained in remission until September 22, 2008, when we were informed that the cancer had returned. We decided to treat with the combination of holistics, Prednisone and love, and he was given a two month prognosis. At that time, he was alive and well, and continued that way for many more months. Dave crossed the rainbow bridge on May 11th.

Friday, December 26, 2008

Merry Christmas!

I am so thankful that Dave was alive and well to spend Christmas with us. He had a full couple of days, including driving down to my mom's late on Christmas Eve, walks with grammom, running around the kitchen while Mike and I prepared Christmas dinner. He got a lot of new toys (that he promptly destroyed), a new jacket and a gift certificate to his favorite store for more treats and toys.

Dave hit another milestone, and next week - 2009 - should be another!! That's 11 and a half months since diagnosis, which is amazing considering how bad it was at diagnosis and the quick recurrance. My brother, who hasn't seen Dave for a while, was really surprised at how well he's doing. Dave is recovering from the excitement today, but is more energetic than I thought he'd be. Good stuff.