January 12, 2007 (Friday)

Ashley has an 11:30 a.m. appointment with Dr. Harris in Dallas. I didn’t have time to offer Ashley a chance to eat on her own; so, I hand-fed her.

We are expecting a cold front that is bringing an ice storm and rain with it. Luckily, it is not here yet. It’s only misting.

We saw Dr. Harris. Ashley weighed in at just over or about 11 pounds. She really wants to give Ashley that certain type of chemo mentioned earlier, but she says it’s expensive to give to a little cat – about $180 – without sharing it with another animal. If we could split it with someone else, it would only be about $30 or so. Ashley’s lump seems to have gone down a bit according to Dr. Harris. I can’t tell because we are with her all the time. Dr. Harris offered Ashley a 10mg Prednisone pill inside a “Pill Pocket” – both the salmon and chicken flavored. She refused it. Dr. Harris decided to wait on giving her a chemo treatment today. She’d really like to give her the expensive chemo mentioned above, but currently has no one she can share it with. Dr. Harris didn’t want to give Ashley another dose of Cytoxin so close to her last one. Dr. Harris told us if she has someone need the expensive chemo during the next 2 weeks, they’ll call us to come down for a treatment; otherwise, she wants to see Ashley in 2 weeks. Dr. Harris told us to continue giving Ashley the prednisone every day to help keep the swelling of the lump down.

The storm hasn’t arrived yet, as we begin the trip home. As we were coming up US75 into Sherman, it was misting and became a little harder. Once on US82, the weather became heavy with downpours.

We dropped Ashley off at home. We, then, quickly did some food shopping for us and the critters before the storm arrived fully.

Ashley didn’t seem to want to eat on her own for supper. I hand-fed her. She ate about a ½ can today.