I headed into Missoula today for the weekly errand run to town, but the "main event" was taking blind Goldie to see our internal medicine specialist, Dr. Dave Bostwick, for her last chemo treatment. After surgery to remove a mast cell tumor back in August, Goldie started a long course of chemotherapy that required a total of eight treatments. I took the photo this morning of Dave administering the chemo while his vet tech Tracy holds Goldie.
Dave had told us then that he'd never had a dog become sick from this particular chemo drug, vinblastine, and Goldie kept Dave's track record perfect. Not once did she ever show any side-effects or even become lethargic. In fact, she always got so excited whenever we pulled up to Dave's clinic that I liked to joke we'd never seen any dog look forward to chemotherapy as much as Goldie.
We also realize just how blessed we are, because the type of chemo drug can make all the difference in the world. In Goldie's case, we were lucky. Other dogs with different kinds of tumors require chemo drugs that can really take a toll on the animal.
Goldie will stay on prednisone for another three months, and then she'll be completely off any medication for her cancer.
For now, we're putting this one in the "win" column!
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