Coffee has been doing well. Her glands are actually shrinking in size so they are either reacting to the chemo or the prednisone. I guess that they are reacting at all is good, smaller is good. I haven’t heard about the kind of cells they are yet. They said 24-48 hours but I didn’t ask if that included weekends. Silly me.
It’s very important that I try to keep life as normal as possible for her. I learned this when they told me mom was dying. Don’t cry around her, don’t treat her differently then I always have, don’t mope and don’t let life be different, just make it normal. Make life as normal as possible. I will always be grateful to willie Killins, principal of Lancaster School for telling me that. He was a wonderful listener and he was right. Life must be as normal as possible.
When I check Coffees glands she is so used to the doctors checking them and them being biopsied that she just raises her head up and says look. You see when Coffee was a puppy the puppy book said teacher her how to critically think. What the puppy book didn’t tell you is that there is now nothing she can’t get open including a ziplock badge!
