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Beanie's last dose of chemo was two months ago and he's having a break from it at the moment. We took him in today for a check-up (not a full CT scan) and they poked and prodded and did a blood test, and it seems like the tumour is the same as last time as far as they could tell, which is great. The blood test came back perfect, and they said the only thing was that he'd lost just a bit of weight so we're going to bump his food amount up slightly. We're giving it another two months and he'll get another full CT scan and hopefully it's good news. 🤞🏻

Posted on 26 April 2023, 14:00

Fuck yeah, I am now a card-carrying union member. ✊🏻 (Professionals Australia if you're interested, they cover tech-related areas, amongst a number of others: https://www.professionalsaustralia.org.au)

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Posted on 8 March 2023, 18:52

Beanie had a vet appointment today with the oncologist, he's taking a break from the chemo for a couple of months as the last dose made him really sleepy for several days afterwards. The good news is that tumour appears to be stable and not getting worse, so we're going to see how he goes and when he goes back in April for another checkup, they might do another CT scan to see how things are looking.

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Posted on 1 March 2023, 11:24

Tonight Beanie finally met the next-door neighbour's dog Salem and it went fine! I was out taking him for a walk around the block, and we ran into Salem and the neighbour out the front of a house around the corner. Beanie of course went feral, but I got the neighbour to do the thing that a dog trainer did YEARS ago where we picked both dogs up and let Beanie give the other dog a good sniff, then put them back down. After that there was a bit of dancing back and forth as they continued to sniff each other for a bit, but once they were over it that was pretty much that and they mostly just ignored each other while the neighbour and I chatted. Very interested to see how Beanie goes next time we run into them, if he remembers Salem or not. It seems to be just the initial introduction to new dogs that he has a problem with, once he's had a sniff he's fine.

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Posted on 26 February 2023, 19:37

Pro: Went to a party at a friend's place, used their pool for a good two hours (I honestly don't think I've been in a pool for probably ten years or more), met new people, had lots of fun. Con: My Apple Watch appears not to have survived the pool, despite supposedly being waterproof. 😡 Fortunately @yayKM offered her Watch to use because she can't wear it due to wrist issues anyway, so my 1244 day streak of closing all three of my rings will not be broken.

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Posted on 18 February 2023, 19:34

Beanie had his third chemo treatment today, this time back to the pill, and they gave him 20% less this time because previously his white blood cell count was really low when we got the blood test done a week later. Fingers crossed we get absolutely no side-effects again and that he remains his normal self.

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Posted on 8 September 2022, 19:44

We had the oncologist appointment today. They couldn't get anything fully conclusive about the type of cancer, at least not without doing a biopsy which is a bit risky itself, but he's going to go on chemo next week once his UTI is under control. The prognosis for the specific type of cancer that it most likely is is an average of six months, but there's no way to know how well he'll respond to treatment so it might be more, it might be less. 😞

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Posted on 22 July 2022, 16:06

Beanie's been unwell lately (intermittently throwing up and needing to pee a lot more frequently), he was shivering a bunch this afternoon so Kristina took him to the vet and they did an x-ray and it turns out he's got a tumour in his abdomen so we had to have to rush him to the emergency vet. 😢 He's staying overnight and they're going to do a CT scan in the morning and see what the deal is, the vet said it looks like it might be something in his spleen and they see that being malignant about 2/3s of the time. They're likely going to do surgery pending the results of the scan, then take samples and send them off to be analysed to see if it _is_ malignant or not.

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Posted on 13 July 2022, 18:15

Achievement unlocked: watched Life of Brian with the daughter. 🎉

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Posted on 11 June 2022, 22:38

I am now officially discharged from the exercise physiologist! 🎉 When we started a few months ago, she had a "force meter" device where it was attached to my ankle at the front and I'd sit down and pull as hard as I could backwards. My right leg measured ~13kg and my left was 11kg. Today we did it again, and the right leg was 20kg and the left was 24kg! I'm not at the point yet where I'm able to have the elliptical up to where I used to use it (previously I was at 12˚ incline, 14 resistance out of a maximum of 20, right now I'm at 2˚ incline with 7 resistance) but that'll just be a matter of building up to it. 💪🏻

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Posted on 27 May 2022, 13:25