Final Chemo Finished

You might think I was excited as all get-out..... but I'm not. Because I have another 13 treatments of Herceptin every 3 weeks which is still called chemotherapy.... Which makes total sense to me - since Herceptin IS a chemical drug and it is still therapy for my cancer. I still have to go every 3 weeks to the cancer clinic and get hooked up through my port.... So I think I will be more excited after the Herceptin ends.

The good news is that the side effects of Herceptin seem to be fatigue - but not the other stuff because this drug is more to do with the Hormone side of things and not the rapidly dividing cell side of things. So no mouth sores, or nerve damage or nausea.

And of course, I'll be REALLY happy once the damned port comes out!

On a completely different note, our dog Molly was attacked by a pit bull tonight - she SEEMS to be mostly ok but will keep you posted after 2nd vet visit tomorrow. Cam took her to the ball field and, as is his usual practice, was throwing a tennis ball for her between games (double-header). The pit bull chewed through his leash and chased her, then knocked her over and bit her in the soft belly part below her rib cage. Cam picked the dog up by its fur to try to get it to let go, but Molly was still attached so he put it down and the owner got there right then and managed to unclamp his dog. From what we can see, it looks like a deep layer of skin was peeled off with the bite, but we can't see any puncture marks. Cam took her to a vet - but the guy seemed scared of being bitten by Molly and so Cam did not feel confident that he got a good enough look at what had happened - but at least he gave her an antibiotic and suggested she be looked at more thoroughly under sedation.

Our plan is to take her to our usual vet who ISN'T afraid of dogs.... and who we are almost certain will not need to sedate her to look more closely. She is walking gingerly but doesn't appear to be TOO grievously injured - we were very lucky. Our main concern now is internal injury - but we have high hopes as the bite seems to be scrape of skin with the teeth and not a puncture mark - but we're not vets so we'll get the expert opinion tomorrow. The good news is that the guy who owns the dog was very apologetic and provided all his contact info and told us he would pay the vet bills.

That is a stand-up thing to do. A neighbour of ours had his poodle attacked by a pit bull months ago and that poor dog is STILL going through surgeries.... several thousand dollars later and he still is healing. And the guy who owned that dog literally RAN away so the neighbour had no recourse from him.