[Dailydrool] Colt Update

[Michele S.]

Hello Droolers.  We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Healing drool to all of those hounds and humans that need it.  As for us we are back at the farm in Indiana, and yes we got sleet on Friday morning and 5-6 inches of snow in the afternoon. As for Colt he had a little set back after his 3rd chemo on Monday before Thanksgiving.  It started on Wednesday before Thanksgiving with him getting pretty sick and throwing up all day.  After our meds and sub-q fluids didn't work to stop it we took him to Louisville to the Emergency vet hospital where he spent Thanks giving and most of Black Friday with 24 hour care, fluids and IV medications.We brought him home late afternoon on Black Friday. The E-vet wanted to keep him since they had not been able to get him to eat or drink.  We took some of his favorite foods with us and the DH & I were able to get him to eat a couple pieces of chicken jerky, a dog biscuit and a couple of ginger snap cookies. So we had the E-vet to load him up on fluids and his last set of IV medications and we brought him home.  He was looking a lot better than when we took him in and he had not vomited in about 18 hours or so. Plus we figured that he was in major picky eater mode...meaning he wasn't going to eat hospital food!  Once we put him in the car he was ready to head for home, prancing around the front of the cargo area as if to say "start the car and lets blow this popsicle stand already" he slept the whole way home, but when we pulled into the garage he was bouncy again. We got him to eat some more & drink some ice water. Colt, Ruger & I camped out together in the living room that night...I attended to Colt's every need. Over the next couple of days I played nurse maid to him, giving small amounts of food every couple of hours and fresh ice water. He made a good recovery except his lymph nodes puffed up pretty big so we called his new Internal Medicine vet which is part of the same clinic as his Emergency vet.  (his regular vet is in FL, and only specialist will give chemo around here). Anyhowl, on 5 Dec we took him in for an evaluation and she decided to change his chemo medications and go with a dual medication instead of the single med. Colt got his first treatment with the new meds that day.  So far he is doing well other than being a little picky about what he wants to eat. But he is eating and his lymph nodes have shrank down considerably. He has to go back on the 19th for another treatment. Keep us in your prayers and if the hounds could sling a little no getting sick post chemo drool and a little C-word remission drool Colt's way it would be very much appreciated. 

Happy Howlidays 
Michele, Colt & Ruger at Howling Hound Acres
Women are Angels...And when someone breaks their wings..They simply continue to fly....on a broomstick...They are flexible like that...
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