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We took Beanie in for his next batch of chemo today. We're doing the same thing we did last time, alternating between an oral pill and a drip, with about three weeks in between, two doses of each, then a CT scan afterwards to see how everything is looking. It's so funny how all the staff know him like he's a celebrity or something, there was someone new at reception and they commented that they couldn't wait to meet him! We've had more than one person say how adorable he is, and he's apparently always very well-behaved for them which is good (apparently the obnoxiousness is saved up solely for us 😛).

Posted on 13 December 2023, 13:15

We took Beanie in for a follow-up CT scan today, not unexpectedly it looks like the cancer is slowly coming back. We can put him on chemo again or potentially do surgery to remove the part of his liver that has the tumours on it, but the vet is going to speak to one of the surgeons to confirm that that's something that could make sense. We'll find out more on Friday but we'll likely not go with the surgery option anyway I don't think.

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Posted on 6 December 2023, 16:18

Beanie had another vet checkup today to see how the tumour is going. The vet said it _might_ be very marginally harder (softer is better) but it's really subjective, and Beanie wasn't reacting at all to all the poking and prodding. They did a blood test and they were 100% perfect, and his weight has been completely stable as well. We're going to stick with the original plan of getting another CT scan done in December because the vet said she wasn't concerned with how everything was looking right now.

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Posted on 11 October 2023, 13:59

Tonight with the 16 year-old we made Nagi's satay chicken stir fry (https://www.recipetineats.com/chinese-satay-chicken-stir-fry/) and it was DELICIOUS, highly recommended. Then we watched The Lego Movie because the subject came up and I said I'd never seen it before and got a "Whaaaat?!" reaction and oh man is that a fun movie. 😂 Lando and C3PO from the original Star Wars trilogy were in it for approximately 30 seconds and they still managed to get the actual original actors to do the voices for them!

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Posted on 23 September 2023, 21:55

We took Beanie to the vet for another checkup (not a full CT scan) to see how the tumour is going. She said she's very happy with how things are, there's no change that she can feel, and we've got another follow-up booked in for a couple of months. After that it'll probably be another scan just to double-check everything, but fingers crossed it remains good news!

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Posted on 2 August 2023, 11:13

WE. ARE. HOME. To add to the overall cursedness of this trip, we had dinner last night in the hotel restaurant, it was EXTREMELY overpriced and not very good, and I subsequently woke up at 1:30am and spent the next two hours being sick. 😑 And just to top it all off, we've come home to a notification from our ISP saying there was a burst water main in one of the points of interconnect that ruined a bunch of networking equipment and we're not expected to have our regular internet connection working until this evening. And of course because the whole area is affected, everyone is tethering and it's all slow as hell.

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Posted on 17 June 2023, 14:47

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. 🤞🏻

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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