Goliath Update

I just got home with Goliath and he is doing great! He looks nothing like the half-dead dog we brought home last weekend. His eyes and face are not saggy and tired looking. He can eat hard food now without yelping. He is back mostly to his same old self.

The vet wants to see him in two weeks to remove his stitches, and I think he said maybe take a blood sample, and he wants to see him in three weeks for his next dose of chemo.

He said that dogs don't react nearly as badly to chemo as people do, so we shouldn't have to deal with too much, if any, hair loss, sickness, weight loss, appetite problems, etc. He said we will see the full effects of the chemo in about two weeks when it starts to really affect his bone marrow.

Before I went to pick him up, I checked the mail. There was a really nice card for Goliath from Marsha, Ray, Stephanie, and Hillary. Enclosed in the envelope was a really cool 9" long bone. I set it on the passenger seat next to me and went to pick him up. When I let Goliath in the van at the vet's, the first thing he did was take a big bite of the bone! That was a really good sign because just a few days ago he wouldn't have been able to eat a hard bone like that because of the enlarged lymph nodes behind his jaw that were causing him severe pain.