Louie the Neapolitan Mastiff

Well I’m sorry it’s been awhile since the last post but Louie wasn’t feeling so good for a few days and it was scary. He had his expected 3-5 day post chemo blahs where he didn’t want to eat his usual food and was very tired and sleeping a lot. But then he came out of it in grand fashion, eating and running around. Then 9 days post chemo he became very quiet. He did not want to eat, even boars head turkey and roast beef did nothing for him.  I tried all his favorites. He didn’t want to interact and just wanted to be left alone. This went on for 4 days! I was getting very worried. During this time the vet called to let me know that Louie’s blood work came back excellent! He said his platelets were a little low but so little that it wasn’t even worth mentioning. I explained to him what was going on with Lou and how I was so worried. He said it definitely wasn’t caused by the chemo because the blood work was fine. He said he didn’t believe it was the cancer because it came on too suddenly and he was fine before that. So we went over everything that happened prior to his feeling so bad and came up with macaroni and cheese 🙂  Sunday night my husband and I had given Louie about a cup of macaroni and cheese left over from dinner not thinking anything of it and I guess it just didn’t agree with him 🙂 So no more mac and cheese for the big Lou!  No one was ever happier or more thankful than I when Wednesday night Louie ate his normal dinner and Thursday morning the spark was back in his eyes! Today he was 100% back to his old self and I couldn’t be more relieved! Next Thursday is our 2nd chemo. Why do the days seem to be flying by so fast? I wish I could slow every precious one down to a mere crawl.