Hi Kim,

A MI of 20 is high, sorry I was hoping it would come back lower.  But you never know, I never got a MI after her surgery (I didn't know to ask back then) and she had cancerous mast cells in the lymph node removed with her leg.  Stay postitve!

My Maggie had an alternating treatment of Vinblastine and CCNU (also called Lomustine).  You can read about her treatments in her blog, the link is in my signature below. Over all she handled the chemo pretty well. We only needed the anti nausea meds once and only had to postpone one treatment because her WBC count was too low.  I think that was after vinblastine. She was also on prednisolone, benadryl and pepcid the entire time she did chemo.

My quad pug Tani also has mast cell cancer- she developed her first tumor in 2007. Palladia was recommended to me when the cancer recurred in 2011 by a couple vets.  After research I decided not to try it for Tani.  She has a variety of chronic health issues that made me not want to risk it.  But many dogs have done just fine on it.  You might read through a blog called Rosies Road.  Rosie is a quad lab with mast cell cancer who took palladia for several years without issue. The blog was last updated last May with Rosie still doing well, although no longer on palladia.

Karen and Spirit Maggie