La Update
Thank you all for your good wishes! I think you are right - if anybody can do it, it's La. For now, she is feeling great, she thinks upping her meals from 3 to 5 times a day is the best idea ever and is as fat as never before - we had to hold her back some to not exceed the "dog in cabin" weight for her flight to last two radiations, but now we're all back to making her fat 🙂 Other as being unusually fat, she is actually completely asymptomatic at the moment - bleeding from the nose, loud breathing and sneezing stopped as soon as we started with radiation and her face asymmetry disappeared a couple of days after. She comes with us for all the walks, is doing tricks daily and we even throw in an occasional dog-walk to make her smile.
She did get some red and itchy skin under her eyes because of the radiation, so she is not as pretty as usually at the moment, but she sure didn't lose her smile:
Side-effects from radiation should disappear in a couple of weeks though and what happens next, we don't really know - it can be it comes back, it could be metastasis will show up... So far, no metastasis were found in samples from lymph nodes, spleen and liver, but you can never be sure... But we're happy that the tumor is obviously shrinking and we do hope we can beat the odds and turn promised months into years. Without radiation, she would be gone by now, so it's great to see her just as happy and hungry as always. So just keep on smiling La, we can do that!!!
Sounds like good news! Get well soon La!!
Great news… We love to see you smiling LA :*
Yeah!!! So happy for you and La!
Woohoooo!! That’s great news! Love the photo -- La looks just beautiful! 😀
Nice to see La is doing better! By the way -- don’t know what you are feeding your dogs, and maybe you know this already, but you might want to consider feeding raw diet or at least using grain-free kibble -- carbohydrates, expecially simple, are shown to sort of “feed” cancer cells, thus making the risk of metastasis and reappearing of cancer much higher. So pretty much the less carbohydrates the dog eats, the lower the chances of metastasis -- reappearing of cancer 🙂
Good luck La!
Yes, they’re all eating grain-free and La is getting some extra proteins and fat.
Sounds very promising! Glad to hear that La is doing better and is happy, happy, happy! She looks adorable as ever! Best of luck La!!! We’ll keep you in our thoughts and prayers!
So happy for good news in update and to see La smiling. Cherish every moment and if getting a little bit fat makes her happy, then why not? 🙂
Bravo La! She is such a sweet big fighter in small body. Hope that she will get better and better 🙂
😀 So great to hear good news….. La you are great and the prettiest 13 year old phyrshep which exist…. be strong and enjoy your life!!!!! 😀
Super contente que ta petite La ait retrouvé son “peps”, sa joie de vivre 😀 il n’y a que ça qui compte 😀 pour cette incroyable chienne 😀