I haven’t posted in a while and the usual reasons I see when people don’t post regularly are that things are great and life just moves on. Not our case.
Zeus had his last chemo at the beginning of December and had a very strong reaction to it. His first time that he was not feeling well from it but he recovered in a few days. However, since then I noticed that he was not himself somehow. He still plays, and runs like crazy and his tail never stops, ever…but overall I just had this strong sense that something was off. His eyes look different and he is extremely “clingy” – which in itself is not unusual for Vizslas but this is extreme. We have a 20 year old cat, Max and the two of them never cared for each other in the seven and a half years since Zeus became a part of our family. In the last week, Zeus has been curling up next to Max. This has never happened before.
So, we were booked for his 5th chemo dose today and the usual process is I drop him off, wait in the car, technician calls me an hour later with an update “all done – good to go”, I pay over the phone and they bring him out. This time I got a call 20 minutes after I dropped him off and it was the oncologist. She never calls.
X-ray shows a number of tumors in his lungs. Chemo is stopped and we were given different medication to help slow the growth. Doctor said without medication two months, with medication 4-6. Medication has side-effects and I am not thinking straight right now. Griffin has been going through a similar journey and he has been my lead and my hope. We are about five months behind. I need to clear my head but don’t know how.
2020 has not left us yet and we are just exhausted.
