Defiance!!

Does this look like the face of "Defiance?"

Well, it's hard for my sweet Westie to look defiant,

but she continues to defy the odds with her cancer.

At her appointment today, Dr. Earl came back from doing her ultrasound exam and said the cancer appears to be "encapsulating." Normally this type of tumor undulates with tentacle-like matter and can be especially troubling in the bladder where a blockage would be lethal. But today he said he can actually see an encasement and that the tumor appears to be smaller than before. We were all feeling rather jubilant!

It had occurred to me before her appointment this morning that back in August we didn't expect her to live more than two months. So heartworm prevention had been pushed out of my consciousness. Then today, seven months later, I realized she has not taken her heartguard in all that time, so Dr. Earl agreed to quickly test her and get her back on those meds too. It seems we had fallen prey to the tyranny of the urgent and forgot to deal with the everyday.

So I think we're back on track. Let's see, Heartguard once a month, Previcox once a day, Doxycycline five days a month. And let's not forget the flea preventive! Long live that defiant "Westitude!"