She's Home!

We brought Arrow home this evening. She is a superstar! Nineteen treatments and a football sized burn later she is home and has hopefully kicked cancer's ass. When we picked her up we needed to have a discharge appointment with the oncologist. He took us all into a side room and gave us our instructions (and there are many). I sat on the floor with her to pet her because we hadn't seen her since Tuesday morning. Instead of coming to Sally or I, she nestled with Dr. Lee. Not feeling too put out (yet) we listened as he rubbed her ears and told us how to care for her.

Then, Jen, her new Vet student friend comes into the room. She is the one who said she LOVED her and would miss her (when I was talking with her on the phone this morning, the vet tech in the background yelled, "give her extra kisses from us when you get her home this weekend!). She walked right away from Dr. Lee and right into the arms of Jen! My new positive self reframed my feeling of abandonment into this: "I'm so glad they took good care of her and Arrow feels safe with these people. She really wants to say goodbye to both of them."

She came home and we took her e-collar off (which we can only do when we are with her or she will lick herself). It was very sweet to see Sally lie on the floor with her, rub her head, and whisper happy thoughts to her. She also assured her that she didn't miss any action here during the week! Arrow was a love muffin. She was leaning into Sally, then she was snuggling with me. She didn't forget us for her new friends at Tufts! She still loves us :)

They gave her a new medication which takes care of some of the neuropathic pain (probably why she was twitching). She seems to be doing much better than last weekend. I think that new med is the bomb! Sally wants me to take the new med too as she thinks it will help with my twitch.

P.S. Sally is having angst. You can try to guess why. Would you say it is a) Arrow's pain; b) Having to put ointment on the raw nasty flesh wound 3x a day; or c) the fact that the rugs are going to get her pussy skin all over them; or d) all of the above.