Claude Galvez COMES HOME
Many of you know how I've been struggling with my own little Ginger's life for the past three months. For those of you that don't, Ginger has been battling lymphoma, which is cancer of the lymphatic system, since October 2006. In April, she came out of remission and we've been struggling to get her back to a good place. She had a bad, albeit fairly common, reaction to one of the drugs in May and was in ICU for five days. AFter trying practically every chemo on the market, we finally realized she had become resistant and chemo was no longer an option for her.
Last week, we tried a new, non-standard, approach which was to use radiation. Ginger's lymphoma is, thankfully, not in her internal organs as of yet, so she was a candidate for nodal radiation. In this protocol, each external node is hit with radiation three times in the span of a week. Thankfully, all of her nodes practically disappeared.
But, late last night, she became very, very ill - bad gastric upset - so this morning we spent the morning at the vet for fluids, tests and many drugs. As of right now, 2:30 pm, she seems to have stablized and is snoozing comfortably.
So, now on to the update on Claude....some of this has already been posted on our facebook page, www.facebook.com/lsstlar, but here goes....
GCVS called early Friday morning to tell me I could come get Claude. This was MUCH MUCH earlier than I expected. I picked him up late yesterday afternoon. Here he is with Ms. Paula, his new best friend She had to explain all of the after care for him and she also told me how lucky it was that we accelerated his surgery - the infection was spreading quickly inside of the closed-up wound.
You can see how swollen his right ear is - poor boy.
Dr. Hottinger closed up the open, gaping wound and inserted a drain tube which will come out on Monday.
As of right now, we have raised $900 toward his vet bill. The total came out just under $2400 instead of $2600, but we are a tad behind. Please pass this message around to all lhasa lovers you know. I know the economy is horrible right now, believe me, we're feeling it at Deogi, but I still can't give up on these puppers!!
To donate via PAYPAL GO HERE or GO HERE TO PLEDGE TO SEND A CHECK or HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CREDIT CARD AUTHORIZATION FORM.
As soon as we get Claude's funds raised, we HAVE to start on Mae's.
Thanks to Marty Howard, Barbara Grabell, Christine Apple, Dana Del Bianco,Dale Stone, Peter Ymson and Lorna Van De Wiele, Susan Lewis, Josh Rosenbaum, Anne Laquidara, Tricia Havis, Christine Hutchison, Vicki Wakefield, Davis Arnette, Linda Bridges, Mike Birke, Margaret Lubke, Diane Perry, Janet Bello, Wendy Barnum, Doug Cameron his fund is at $900 right now. Still a way to go!!
