Eva...

Where to begin? Things with Eva are not going well. We had decided to do the prednisone treatment for the tumor. This would not make the cancer go away, it would help reduce the tumor site and maybe give Eva some relief. We started her on it on Friday night, but since then everything seemed to go down hill. She has not been eating. She is anemic and dehydrated. Our main gaol is for Eva to have a respectable quality of life in her last days. We know (no matter how hard it is) that she will not live forever and we don't want to have her live in pain.

Starting on Saturday, she had diarrhea which has not gone away. Furthermore, yesterday while I was babysitting, she needed to go out but Mark couldn't get to her in time and she had an accident on the floor of the kitchen. The problem being the accident had blood in it now. To this day she is still not eating anything that she can keep down except for some EVO dog food that I gave her this morning. Looking at her and petting her, you can tell she has lost some weight. You can feel every bone and her face looks very skinny.

Also this morning Mark noticed that when he took her out there was blood on the snow. She usually eats some snow when she goes out, but Mark couldn't find the source until they came back inside. She was now bleeding from the nose. Not a lot, but enough to scare us. The "talk" came around this morning as well. We know that the day will come that we have to make the decision to euthanize her, but was that day today?

We called the vet and talked with them to see what needed to be done next. We then took her in to get some fluids in her (along with some electrolytes, vitamin B, injectable Pepcid, and Benadryl). Hoping this would help her get her energy back as well as her hunger. When we weighed her at the vet, she was 70.5 lbs (she lost almost 12% of her body weight - not good). We were at the vets for more than 2 hours and during this time she had a small seizure. Scared the living shit out of me. She recovered from that and took the rest of the fluids like a champ. She started to relax and fall asleep.

We are home right now and she is sleeping in her favorite spot - the futon. She isn't eating and doesn't want any food. I am hoping that it's part of the morning adventure and she is just tired. Hopefully she will eat later today. Keep your fingers crossed.

The picture above is from a week ago after we had her incision looked at and re-wrapped.