Nothing But Love in Her Heart

Quoting Dr. Sue—“Fallon looks FABULOUS!”

Fallon is reppin’ Tripawds today with her bandana! Here she is done with her treatment, we’re ready to go!!

We got up very early to get to Connecticut by 11AM, but it was an easy drive.  We arrived and went in with Suzanne, Dr. Sue’s Vet Tech, and filled her in on the past 3 weeks.  The biggest issue was that Fallon spiked quite a fever—but despite her high temperature, she had done great—still active and eating.  Suzanne explained that there were reasons why this may not be a big deal, it is probably a result of the last chemo and white blood cell count.  Fallon’s weight is doing great—we do not want her to gain any more, as it will start to impact her mobility.  Right now, she’s about perfect.  So Fallon went off to get her bloodwork, then chemo, and we did exactly what we did the last time…took Maggie out for lunch.  We all had burgers, and then went back to the Veterinary Cancer Center to wait for Fallon.

No one is petting Maggie–time to grab a quick nap.

Uneventful day!  Fallon hopped out, all happy, and we talked about our plan for the next 3 weeks. We’re adding the Apocaps, which is a supplement that may help cancer cells die.  We’re going to continue with the antibiotics and Immunity Treats.  We’ll head back in about 3 more weeks for chemo #3, and we’ll discuss diet changes then.  The next chemo is right before we’re planning our family vacation to Niagara Falls, but that is fine, Fallon has been doing so well after her treatments that there should be no problem

Kiss kiss until we see each other next!

Turns out the animal communicator was talking to someone else. Not Fallon.  Last night I hopped on a call, spur of the moment, and heard the animal communicator.  When it was our turn, I explained Fallon was new at all this, we’re putting her through lots, was there anything she needed?  I was expecting Fallon would say some treat she was missing, or to tell her Dad not to baby her so much, she can take care of herself.  But the animal communicator said Fallon said she was tired—she did not want to go on, and her tummy hurt—she had no appetite.  She described that Fallon had pain at 5 on a scale of 10, and said we should talk to our docs about increasing her pain medicine.  None of this seemed right to me—the day before she was running in the yard with a big smile, and she eats GREYT. She doesn’t take any pain medicine now.  This was more than a bit upsetting, but it’s important to remember that this is not science.  Long story short—she was wrong, or not communicating with Fallon.  Today confirmed that, as Fallon’s awesome doctor sees her as doing FABULOUS.  I have to learn to trust myself, and trust I know Fallon.  Thanks to my friends for talking me down 🙂