Well, it is Wednesday so that meant Indy was scheduled to go to the Oncologist today. Kristina took her in this morning and Jared picked her up. However, there was a slight hiccup in her progress today. If you read the blog post from 2 weeks ago, she went in, no issues and all was good. Today when Kristina took her in, the thought was that it would be a quick visit and all would be good. It turns out that she has had a flare-up.
Her left back leg (the one that she injured and got infected in December) had its lymph node swell up to approximately 3.5cm. Neither Kristina or Jared even knew it because her fluffy coat covered it up. They noticed at the Oncologist today and took a sample of it for pathology. And it turns out that it was indeed the lymphoma flaring up. Dr. Choi's current thinking is that the Cytoxan that she received last time isn't doing anything, or for some reason Indy's cancer is resistant to it. Not sure why it is just that lymph node, but it is.
That being said, he was going to continue to give her the Vincristine that she was due today and check her in two weeks. His thought is that the Vincristine will shrink it back down and we will move forward, substituting a different drug in when she would have been due for Cytoxan.
Not the news we wanted to hear, but it could have been worse, and she continues to act fine and be the same Indy that we love so much! Again, think shrinking lymph nodes!
