Cancer Dog Dave: celebration

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.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

celebration

We had a get-together on Sunday to celebrate Mike's birthday and the Eagles' NFC title game. It was our first time having a lot of people around since Dave's gotten sick. It's strange to think about, but we've had a few friends over here and there, but for a year, nothing big. I've been aware that we haven't really been making plans too far in advance and have acknowledged that I don't want to spend too much time away from him, but writing that just now... Huh.

The Eagles lost (we're used to it), but Dave was the big winner. He was in rare form, with a few naughty moments, but I think he had a good time. He spent most of Monday resting, but is back to form today. Happily, Mike's birthday was much better than last year's - he still has a cancer dog, but the cancer dog has beaten the odds and is still plugging along.