My dog had cancer; June 20,1989

I woke up at eight thirty. I had my breakfast and while I was having it Alex woke up. I made Alex his breakfast then I had a shower and got dressed. I put away my laundry, did the dishes, made the beds and wrote in the journal. Kelly threw up water this morning. I put him outside and when I checked on him later he was eating grass. We took Kelly to the vet in the afternoon. Alex was really good, he didn’t interrupt me once while I was talking to the doctor. Dr. H said Kelly looked a lot better today. He said he was really worried about him last week. He thought he was going downhill. He said it could have been from all the seizures. I asked if he could find out exactly where his growth was. Dr. H said he was very hard if not impossible. He said x-rays don’t show tumours on it until they are very large and even the brain doesn’t show up. Usually only bone maters show up on the x-ray. A cat scan can be done but they don’t have the facilities for it in B.C. I told him one of the other vets told me about a dog having it done at UBC hospital. Dr. H said that particular case the owner was a technician at UBC Hospital for the cat scan. He said unless you know someone they won’t do it. Dr. H said the teaching facilities do it but the closet ones are in Saskatoon and Spokane Washington. He said even if they did find a tumour on Kelly’s brain chances are they wouldn’t operate. He said they don’t like to as they don’t know what the dogs chances are for being normal. Dr. H said the other thing that could be causing the seizures is a cyst on his brain. That would be much better since a cyst doesn’t grow and he would be alright. He said you just have to hope for the best. Dr. H said try not to let Kelly eat too much grass, it wouldn’t be good for him because of his past history of pancreatitis. He said he didn’t know why he was panting more and having to drool. It could be his medication but more it was due to his growth. We then came home, Alex phoned Patrick but he was out playing. However Patrick did come over about half an hour later. When Charlie got home from work, I left to go to the doctors. I sure seem to have the problems, it sure is different from when I was pregnant the first time. I went to Safeway to buy milk and a few other things then I went home. Charlie and Alex had already eaten dinner. I ate as soon as I got home. After dinner we watched tv then Alex and I put away his toys. Alex went to bed at eight thirty. I watched tv and went to bed at ten thirty.