Month: February 2010

Holly had her first haircut since her operation – the baby gund is back!  She’s so soft… and so CLEAN!  We had to wait on her haircut since she wasn’t feeling too good after her last round of chemo – she got pretty nauseous, which isn’t as bad as other reactions except it lasted so long.  But this week is a good week – she’s enjoying life, including her food!  We took a very long walk this morning with her friend Zeus and his mom.  She loves taking walks with Zeus – it’s one of her favorite things to do.  Her hair is growing back from her surgery – and it’s less noticeable now that the rest of her hair has been trimmed, too.

We’ve gotten more snow here in Chicago, but with her hair shorter she’s not coming in looking like an abominable snow-tripawd anymore.  🙁 I guess that’s one of the drawbacks that we hadn’t figured on.  She doesn’t spray snow and water over everything around her nearly as much when she comes in and shakes herself off either. 🙂

Her next round of chemo is next Tuesday.  We’ll hope for the best, and will ask for a prescription for anti-nausea drugs to bring home with us just in case.  And we’ll also have fresh ginger and canned pumpkin on hand, too!

Today was another good day.  Holly didn’t eat her breakfast this morning, but came back at lunchtime for it.  Sometimes she reminds me of a teenager!  She played in the snow alot (grabbing my mitten and shaking it like she just had to kill it), and then played with her rabbit squeak toy inside – also shaking it to within an inch of life!  It’s so good to see her so happy and playful!  She’s living up to her nickname – Jolly Holly!

Holly has been loving all the snow we have in Chicago.  She loves to run through the back yard with her head down – and with her velcro-like fur she ends up collecting tons of snow on her head.  I’m still not sure why that feels so good to her – maybe she just wishes I would wash her face? 🙂  Here’s a picture of our Abominable snow-tripawd (thanks to Peyton for the name – Abominable snow-tripawd fits her so well!)

Holly had her 2nd round of chemo yesterday.  When I went to pick her up the vet tech said that Holly was giving her and the other tech kisses the entire time she was getting her chemo.  She’s always very sweet, but it did make me stop and pause – could she somehow understand that the awful needle in her leg is there to hopefully help her?  She was very excited when I came to pick her up, and had a good night and a very good day today.  We took a short walk in the snow.  Holly wanted to go further, but the vet had said it’s best for her to take it easy the first few days after chemo just in case.  Hopefully she’ll tolerate this round ok…

Holly’s been enjoying all this snow we have – everytime she goes outside she comes back looking like a mini-abominable snowman!  Her fur is like velcro – so her head gets completely covered from all the sniffing and smelling she does.  I’ll have to remember to take a picture tomorrow and post it!  It amazes me how easily she’s hopping through all this snow!