WOW Time goes by way too quickly!
I haven’t had any time to update this blog in a couple of months. For us that how summer goes, super busy until the fall when boating/ fishing season ends and winter sports season begins.
Izzy just finished her chemo and is doing fabulous. No mets in her lungs and everything is looking great. We are starting her vaccines in September and while I’m happy she will be getting those I’m not looking forward to her having to stay at the vets overnight each time. But it’s only 3 vaccines and it will give us a lot more time with our baby so I’ll deal with it 🙂
Izzy did have a couple of issues with fatigue over the last couple of months and the Dr’s were concerned that she might be having pain in her remaining front leg so we are watching her and giving her a pain killer when we think she needs it. She licks at her front leg whenever it is feeling tired or hurting her which lets us know what is going on but also discolors her fur. At first I was concerned that she was getting the cancer in her remaining front limb but the Dr’s did an x-ray and assured me that isn’t the case. She still seems overly lethargic (even by St Bernard standards) and has gotten even more stubborn than she has always been. The exception to that is that whenever I pick up her harness she suddenly has more energy that a 6 month old puppy and will bounce up and down with excitement to go somewhere. Which tells me that she is just being lazy (her usual state) Some of her laziness might be because it’s summertime and just too hot to do much of anything. So if the heat is making me lazy and I’m healthy and not going through chemo I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s making her extremely lazy. Now that the evenings have started to cool down we are taking occasional short walks to try to strengthen her leg. So far we are only making it to the end of the block and back before she is really tired, but that’s a huge improvement from when she couldn’t make it the three houses to the end of the block and we would have to bring her home in the car. our goal is to be able to get to and walk around the park that is 3 blocks from our house. Today she is making herself into an excellent front lawn ornament while her daddy and nephew work on the lawn. 🙂