Arrow is Ready for Spring

Arrow had her 6 month cancer follow up visit at Tufts, and we are happy to say all is good. She has a skin lesion in her radiation site which is finally healing. She is on prednisone for a short time to try to kick the supposed autoimmune response causing the skin lesions out of her body. It is nice to see that she is her frisky old self. The pred makes her kind of like superdog. She hiked Mt. Skinner with her young friend Buttons today and ran around like a freak. She scaled down the side of the mountain and back up. And she can still walk tonight so that is good. She looks great, and is really happy to be rolling in the kind of green grass whenever she can. We go back for a chest xray in 2 months to make sure there are no mets in her lungs. She turned 11 on March 28, so she had her celebatory hot dog as usual. We are dreading having to slather sunscreen on her bald spot from the radiation from now on, since it gets in her fur and is slimy. Sal has to chase after her with lotion just like she does with me because I always have dry skin and never remember to moisturize.