Today we took along 10 dogs for their Chemotherapy injections at Dr Tarn’s Hang Dong Road clinic.

Thankfully this vet is very flexible and rather than making us drive back and forth with 2 car loads of patients, like we did last week, she kindly agreed to see them at her clinic nearer to the shelter.

The routine was just the same though, Khun Nod delivers half the clients to the clinic in the Toyota Vios & then returns to the shelter & collects the remainder. Then after delivering these, he returns the first batch and returns to the clinic to collect everyone else! Phew…! There must be an easier way to write this, let alone do it !

Interestingly, Dr Tarn’s method is one I have not seen before, having witnessed many vets over the past couple of years deliver the Vincristine injection.

Other vets I have seen just inject the liquid directly into the vein. But Dr Tarn’s preferred method is to dilute the flow into the blood by using a saline catheter and then easing the chemical into the blood stream.

Apparently, although not having had a jab personally, Vincristine delivers a burning hot sensation and by diluting its introduction in this way, the effect is less stressful on the patient.

Today we had no new cases along for the first time but Sheena, who wasn’t on last week’s run, came along today for her alternate week injection.

Sheena is suffering with cancer of the lymph system and is currently on a variety of meds. As well as the Prednisolone steroids she has been on & is now coming off, she is receiving Cyclophosphomide every other week in between Vincristine injections.

She is doing well, her eruptions are seeming to be under control and certainly not as raw and open as they were.

It’s early days yet but we hope we can at least give her a chance of spending her retirement at the shelter in a fairly comfortable condition.

As stated in other posts and pages on this site, photos of TvT can be a little disturbing to some people, therefore images of blood and raw flesh tumors, characteristic of this condition are shown in another page here … which you are welcome to browse if you wish.

But here are a couple of the happy patients that are looking forward to the end of their treatments.