Ruthie got a bath and pawdicure on Wednesday in anticipation of her big vet visit on Thursday.  She's been feeling so good and had gotten into the horse manure (a good thing) so I thought she needed cleaning up.  Besides, she was meeting Magic on Friday!  She was on Temadar for 5 days which I really think helped.  Two of the chest mets are less dense!  One seems possibly more dense so she is now on Palladia (toceranib phosphate) 2 pills every other day for a month.  It's FDA approved but still in trials, but as Dr. Dhaliwal says, we have to "think outside the box" at this point.  Her appetite is better and she is happy again.  A month ago I was in tears daily watching her so despondent.     I fired up the BBQ this afternoon and darn is she wasn't blasting up the deck stairs before the steak was even out of the fridge!  My heart swells seeing her feeling so good.  She's now past 8 months since her amputation!  I take every day as a gift.  Thanks Diane for posting the picture of our two pups!

I don't know if they do second rounds of temodar.  She has handled all the chemo and the temodar so well, no side affects at all so that wouldn't be a deterent.  But since it did some good, I guess it's time to attack that 3d lung met that didn't respond to the temodar. 

Ruthie did not get her nails painted.  That would be way too much!   I'm just lucky to get them trimmed!

RuthieGirl said:

Dr. Dhaliwal says, we have to "think outside the box" at this point. 

Dr. Dhaliwal?  Just curious - I'm not sure where Sebastopol is in California, but we have a Dr. Dhaliwal here in Orange County at the VCA Allcare hospital that treated Max.  As far as I know, he works out of our area most of the time.  That's not a common name, and I'm wondering if we're talking about the same person.

It's good to hear your news. Everyone's support towards everyone else is so nice to read about!