Latest Round of Chemo

Sorry for the late update -- I had a stomach virus on Thursday and still wasn't feeling well Friday. Toby had his latest round of chemo on Wednesday and continues to do well. His skin infection is cleared up. He's happy and loving, as usual. The staff at the vet school always say nice things about Toby -- he is so sweet and cooperative.

The doctors want to do a staging the next time Toby goes in for chemo. That's a chest X-ray, full exam, ultrasound, etc. I simply can't afford it. His chemo runs about $250, plus he has CBCs every week which are close to $40 a week. An ultrasound is around $100-150. Of course, we do need to do at least the ultrasound every couple of weeks so we know that the tumor continues to shrink or at least not grow. But without the full staging procedure, we have no idea if the cancer has grown into his lungs, etc.

I added it up the other day - I've spent about $3,500 since May on Toby. At this point, I'm not sure how I'm going to continue the chemo, let alone any other procedure. But as long as he's doing well, I'm going to try.