We had a follow-up appointment with Dr. Choy and Indy's cancer continues to progress and get increasingly worse; however looking at her you would never know it. She continues to be a troubleshooting problem for Dr. Choy -- although you can tell he loves her.
The lymph nodes in her throat continue to enlarge as well as the one on her left back leg. It seems that everything we are throwing at it, does absolutely nothing anymore. She definitely has some stubborn cancer cells in there -- that's for sure!
So, we had a long meeting with Dr. Choy today to re-group. Our options were as follows:
- Do nothing and let it continue to get worse; she would most likely have 1-2 months left.
- MOPP -- another round of chemo with different drugs
- Clinical Trial (www.woof4thecure.com)
In talking with him and listening to answers to all of our questions, we all agreed that MOPP would be the next choice, or in our case, Plan C. The MOPP is similar to the CHOP protocol, but with slightly different drugs. Any of the drugs that we have already determined that her cancer is resistant to will be substituted with another drug. Today she started her first round. She has another visit on the 8th and then she will be off for two weeks. We continue with the drugs we are already giving her (Denamarin, Prednisone, Prilosec) and now we are adding a compounded chemotherapy drug called Procarbozine. The Procarbozine can sometimes cause problems between weeks 2 and 3 because it builds up in the system. As usual, we will watch her closely. Dr. Choy has been impressed with how well she has tolerated all of the drugs -- she hasn't missed a beat.
So until things change again -- normal diet, normal exercise, and no restrictions!
She went on a good 5-6 mile walk/hike last weekend and we did plenty of swimming in the river, and she never skipped a beat!
