Hey everybody 🐶🐮🐱

Me and Eurydice have been quite busy lately, we moved back to France and stopped chemo for good ...

Miss Cow had Palladia 3 times but wasn't quite herself, quiet and miserable, crying and uncomfortable.

I was very surprised because she sailed through Carboplatin, metronomics (cyclophosphamide) and doxorubicin but this time it was very different.

After her 3 dose of Palladia she peed in bed one night and didn't even bother to move away and did the same the next morning.

This never, ever happened before so off to the vet we went (after calling the onco) and she did blood and urine tests.

It turned out she had a very nasty urinary infection, she started antibiotics 16/3 and is still taking them (different ones for the past 10 days)

I had a long chat with her new vet where we now live and he is of the opinion we should stop Palladia.

Kelvin, her UK oncologist, was never too inclined to keep doing chemo, to be honest I was the one pressing him for it.

Kelvin and Eurydice's new vet think there is little point pursuing Palladia because in most cases it doesn't make any difference when lung mets are present and also to verify whether it helps or not we'd need PET scans and that involves general anaesthetics.

The main reason why I agreed to stop chemo was because Eurydice is immunosupressed whilst taking it and that makes her prone to infections (like this stupid urinary one she is battling now). 

So we are now following and holistic treatment, she is taking vitamins, enzymes, calcium etc and will start acunpuncture and osteo next week. 

Apart from this, we have a little drama going, and it's all my fault 😡

I took Eurydice for a 2 1/2h walk in the forest (with rests in between) with auntie Evelyne 5 days ago and she wore her booties as always.

But this time, either she had them on for too long or I adjusted them too tightly so her remaining front paw and wrist are swollen, stupid idiot me, I've been kicking myself hard for being such an idiot 😡

I called the vet the next day and he said no long walks and massage the area but it looks like it is swollen further around the wrist so I am off to a vet hospital later today ...

They can do X-rays and ultrasound if need be I just cannot believe how I geopardised her only front leg 😡

I've been checking it every day and luckily she doesn't blink when I press the area, of course my thoughts were is this a new cancer growing on the other wrist?

I know it is extremely rare but not impossible but after 5 days it would already hurt like hell If it was osteo, I suppose ...

Keep your fingers and paws crossed for Miss Cow, I SO hate cancer 😡

Will update later ...

Huge hugs and cuddles to your cuties 😘😘😘😘💕💕💕