Re: [PyrNet-L] CHAT, HEALTH: Clondike-Honor Student

[Joy Mccarron <jemc@monmouth.com>]

Keep up the good work Clondike!!!!  I'm still putting all the brussel
sprouts on you recovery!!!          Maggie
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From: David P Kintsfather Jr <kintsfat@kutztown.edu>
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Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 8:04 PM
Subject: [PyrNet-L] CHAT, HEALTH: Clondike-Honor Student


>Clondike is the 11 year-old Pyr with lymphoma.  No she did NOT earn the
>first leg on a CD degree, but she has been a busy girl since my last
>report.
>
>Friday before last she received the first dose of a new chemotherapy
>protocol.  In 24 hours her lymph nodes had gone down dramatically and she
>started acting like her old, obnoxious self!  Last Tuesday I took her to
>my Honors Seminar where the topic for the semester is Webcasting: the
>Democratization of Mass Media.  As a Web star she sort of qualified as a
>visual aid and she really worked the room, obscuring the fact that I
>wasn't very well prepared (works even better than showing a video).
>I told her not to show up the students, or she'd put them in therapy for
>life.
>
>Wednesday night we went to our vet for a CBC because most of the chemo
>drugs are bone marrow suppressors and we need to monitor her white count,
>which normally hovers around low normal at just under 6,000.  The techs
>had a little trouble finding a working vein (chemo does that to the
>veins), but Clondike was her usual cooperative self with HER technicians
>(don't try this stuff at home).
>
>On Thursday we saw our regular vet who said Clondike's white count on Wed.
>had been 7,700 and that in all aspects it was a very good CBC for a dog on
>chemo.  So... either Clondike studied for this blood test, they mixed up
>the samples (they swear not) or they accidentally took blood from one of
>the technicians rather than Clondike.  In any case, the vet could only
>find one lymph node she did not consider normal.
>
>On Friday we saw the oncologist, who pulled more blood and got a white
>count of 5,100 (still great for Clondike).  She pronounced Clondike in
>full remission, but thought the white count may not have bottomed out yet,
>so decided to get another CBC on Monday and probably do the second
>treatment of the 1st chemo cycle on Wednesday.  This was actually a
>relief, because it allowed Clondike to attend the Canine Learning
>Experience (a dog expo held in Allentown) on Saturday without us worrying
>how she would react to a totally new drug combination.  She was a big hit
>with the public and enjoyed herself greatly.  She even let a few puppies
>know she is still the Penn-Dutch Queen, but in a nice way.
>
>So far her only problem with the first dose is one day of being a little
>off her feed.  No vomiting or diarrhea so far!!!  The remission status
>means little in the great scheme of things, because she has a long way to
>go before we even think about repeating monoclonal antibodies, but it was
>good to hear in any case.
>
>So we just keep taking it a day at a time.  Thanks for all the support
>from the lists.  I'll keep you posted.
>
>David
>
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