Every day is an eating challenge

I ate like a hog on Saturday. When I woke up Sunday I didn't feel so good. I moped and looked miserable all day; the exact opposite of Saturday. In the evening I threw up and in a few hours I felt better enough to eat some turkey stew before I went to bed.

Food was good on Monday but I slipped away from mom and ate grass in the afternoon. It's Tuesday, I'm not feelin' so hot again. I had some breakfast and a mid-morning snack. Mom has been cooking turkey stew all morning in the crock pot - a turkey leg with sweet potatoes, carrots, spinach, mushrooms, and broccoli. Mom says it's ready when I am but I'm not ready yet. She said there are a surprising number of small flat bones in a turkey leg. She thinks she got them all out. She has to squish all the meat through her fingers to make sure (pretty awful for a vegetarian!) to make sure because we have not come all this way to have me choke on a bone!

Smokey went to see his friend April today. He was beginning to look fuzzy and hot. She will give him a bath and a haircut and cut his nails and he will be so handsome when we go to pick him up. In the meantime, I'm coolin' on the cool floor hoping I feel better real soon.

Sticks and Stats

Mom took me to a new vet last night - one who practices Eastern medicine as well as conventional medicine. She stuck me full of needles and I looked like a metal porcupine! It was a little scary at first but then I relaxed and dozed off.

I'm also on a new diet. Today I've had some stew made with ground turkey, sweet potatoes, spinach, carrots, and mushrooms. I love it! I also get some special herbs. And my pred and a multi-vitamin.

The WORST is that I can't have any more peanut butter and cheese right now! Still, I feel pretty good today so I guess I can give up the PB and cheese for awhile.

Mom looked back for several months. She remembers that my voice changed last fall when she had the new roof put on the house. Smokey and I barked at the workmen a lot. The vet thought maybe I had barked myself hoarse. Sometimes I sounded hoarse and my voice was higher pitched. Didn't stop me from joining in with Smokey though.  Over the winter I was a little ouchy when getting out of my chair after Smokey and I had been romping in the yard. Mom thought that was because I'm getting middle-aged and Smokey plays pretty rough. I got knocked around, but I 'm a tough girl. Not sure if either had anything to do with my cancer, but I'm just sayin' that you need to watch the changes in your pet.

Remember I went off my food in the middle of April and was diagnosed with cancer on May 3. I had chemo treatments on May 11, 18, 25, and June 1. I had a week off but the cancer was back by June 15 and I've had no chemo since June 1.

I'm still here 2 months after my diagnosis with GI lymphoma. I think I'll stay a little longer.