Raven has been steadily healing and leaking less. Tomorrow is his next vet visit, we are hoping to remove the drain and start drying up by then. But his attitude has been wonderful, although not as active, when he is active, he is happy and lopes around and wags his stubby.
Yesterday I had to go on a 4 hour road trip. Raven LOVES to ride shotgun and hasn’t yet. He’s doing well, so he got to come yesterday. The whole time was in the cab of the truck, with one pitstop for pottying. Sitting on the bench seat, his one front leg would slide to the bounce of the truck, so it wasn’t easy, and he’d have to just lay down (but then cannot see out). So, not like it used to be, but he seemed happy to get to go.
When we got home, he was exausted. He couldn’t even make it to the house from they truck, just layed down in the grass for a while. Once he was in, he ate dinner and went to sleep. Only to wake up after dark panting. Then he panted *all* night until about 5am he finally slept soundly. This morning, he ate breakfast and is back to his old self, albeit a bit tired, but very normal attitude and no panting.
The terrifying part is that he snorts a lot. Like a stuffy nose? Not a full on cough, but still… It’s been only 2 weeks since his xray that showed clear lungs, the next day was his amputation. I STILL haven’t gotten the biopsy results. I understand they have to “decalcify” the bone to test it and they said it could take more than a week. But I don’t understand why they can’t tell me the result on the lymph node??? I don’t want to be a pest, but I worry that I should have started chemo by now? Although, I guess it’s better he finish healing first, so I haven’t pressed the issue, and I’ll just ask the vet about chemo tomorrow.
Just a bit of a low point in worry, but really he feels fine, so not that bad. 🙂
We had to wait to start chemo until Peyton’s staples came out which was two weeks after his amputation. They wanted him to be fully healed before the chemo started.
Sounds like Raven had a good, but exhausting day. It is sad how they don’t seem to have the same energy as they use to before the amputation and chemo. Just let Raven keep enjoying those rides!!!