Treatment #13 -

Oakley is almost done with week 3!!  Time is moving much faster than I thought it would, which I am thankful for.  We are definitely looking forward to the weekend though.  Oakley is doing really good again today, overall.  He's still eating really good, still wanting to go for walks, etc.  I have noticed, however, that when they don't do his treatments until the afternoon, it takes a bigger toll on him as far as his energy level.  When he gets his treatment first thing in the morning, he's much more energetic and upbeat.  I hope they can do the remainder of his sessions in the morning. 

I found out that the radiation therapy is not what is causing him to lose his hair across his nose.  It turns out that they are shaving those lines.  Again, they could have just told us that.  I also got his recent bloodwork results and everything is within normal range and the best part is that his white blood cell count is down to 7.9!!  That is down from 33.0 when this all started!!  The Piroxcam is what really brought it down though initially because when they did his first bloodwork before radiation began, his WBC was down to 13.  I am just so happy that everything is back within normal ranges.  I'm hoping this is a good sign that we are making some good progress against this tumor.

Here is a pic of Oakley from today:

Still looking good!  :)