I printed a ‘radioactive’ sign out and stuck it on our front door, I thought it was hilarious but nobody seems to know what it is… oh well.
Honey had her first radiation treatment yesterday – they put her out for about an hour and got her positioning all set up – the marks on her face (you can see them better if you click on the image) are a map of where to direct the proton stream (energize!) and will be there for the entire month. Unfortunately, her left eye will be in the stream at all times – something we really were hoping to avoid, as it causes dry eye (possibly chronic) and increases her chances of cataracts in 5 years or so – but as Cameron told the vet, ‘if we get to experience cataracts in five years we’ll enjoy every minute of it.’ and we will.
Last night she was totally fine – playing ball, catching it in midair, demanding food, she was total Hun. They did say that her mouth will get sore, so we’ve ordered canned food so the hard food won’t hurt her. I’m anticipating problems if her lips get painful, as she still needs us to hold one of them up so she can breathe, if they’re burned or raw it will be really tough for her to tolerate us holding them. I guess that's when the pain / sleeping pills will get used. I’m also concerned that any soreness in her mouth will be exacerbated by dryness which happens when she breathes using the ‘lifted lip’ method. I think I have a schematic for a lip-holder, right now we’re using a plastic cork (from a wine bottle) we’ve sawed in half (long ways) but it keeps falling out. If I can orchestrate the thing I’m thinking of I’ll post a picture. It’s really cute, though, she knows
what the cork is and that it helps her breathe so she just lets us do it. Love that dog. I think she's also figured out that if she falls asleep with a ball in her mouth and her head over someon'e leg she can breathe around the ball, as illustrated. This also has the added bonus of insuring Cameron can't leave, as she's sleeping on him.
Today is day 2 of radiation – each session after the first lasts about 20 minutes, with the dog ‘laughingas-ized’ for about 15 minutes and a 1-2 minutes pulse of that tumor-shrinkin’ goodness. She’ll have 20 treatments in total, so every weekday in February. Poor baby. But I actually did manage to sleep last night, which is so freakin cool I can’t stand it. There was a minor cork-readjust from around 3-4 am but other than that all went well for me. Cameron has miserable allergies, and we can’t seem to fix them. No amount of vacuuming or febreze allergen reducer or swiffering seems to help. It really sucks to have two sickies at once, especially as they’re both having trouble breathing , and both from the left sides of their nose…. Maybe we ought to get Cam zapped while we’re at it.
Honey had her first radiation treatment yesterday – they put her out for about an hour and got her positioning all set up – the marks on her face (you can see them better if you click on the image) are a map of where to direct the proton stream (energize!) and will be there for the entire month. Unfortunately, her left eye will be in the stream at all times – something we really were hoping to avoid, as it causes dry eye (possibly chronic) and increases her chances of cataracts in 5 years or so – but as Cameron told the vet, ‘if we get to experience cataracts in five years we’ll enjoy every minute of it.’ and we will.
Last night she was totally fine – playing ball, catching it in midair, demanding food, she was total Hun. They did say that her mouth will get sore, so we’ve ordered canned food so the hard food won’t hurt her. I’m anticipating problems if her lips get painful, as she still needs us to hold one of them up so she can breathe, if they’re burned or raw it will be really tough for her to tolerate us holding them. I guess that's when the pain / sleeping pills will get used. I’m also concerned that any soreness in her mouth will be exacerbated by dryness which happens when she breathes using the ‘lifted lip’ method. I think I have a schematic for a lip-holder, right now we’re using a plastic cork (from a wine bottle) we’ve sawed in half (long ways) but it keeps falling out. If I can orchestrate the thing I’m thinking of I’ll post a picture. It’s really cute, though, she knows
what the cork is and that it helps her breathe so she just lets us do it. Love that dog. I think she's also figured out that if she falls asleep with a ball in her mouth and her head over someon'e leg she can breathe around the ball, as illustrated. This also has the added bonus of insuring Cameron can't leave, as she's sleeping on him.Today is day 2 of radiation – each session after the first lasts about 20 minutes, with the dog ‘laughingas-ized’ for about 15 minutes and a 1-2 minutes pulse of that tumor-shrinkin’ goodness. She’ll have 20 treatments in total, so every weekday in February. Poor baby. But I actually did manage to sleep last night, which is so freakin cool I can’t stand it. There was a minor cork-readjust from around 3-4 am but other than that all went well for me. Cameron has miserable allergies, and we can’t seem to fix them. No amount of vacuuming or febreze allergen reducer or swiffering seems to help. It really sucks to have two sickies at once, especially as they’re both having trouble breathing , and both from the left sides of their nose…. Maybe we ought to get Cam zapped while we’re at it.
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She's such a doll. :)
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