Treatment Plan

As I have stated before, Emmie & I are lucky to live in Austin, TX a really awesome & fun city that thankfully has multiple specialty veterinarians. We were referred to the Capital Area Vet Specialists where we met with Dr. Hintermeister to discuss next steps.

During our first meeting we discussed the data that was available from Emmie’s previous test results and decided to send the results out for a second opinion from a different lab. It took a few weeks to get results back but we finally confirmed that Emmie did have Cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes.

I have to give props to Dr. Hintermeister who helped me from losing it while we were talking through treatment options. He was so positive and made me feel very hopeful that we could treat Emmie. His cancer killing cocktail recipe involved alternating doses of Vinblastine w/ Prednisone and Lomustine. Our routine was as follows:

• Week 1: Vinblastine Injection
• Week 2: CBC to check her white blood cell counts
• Week 3: Lomustine Pills
• Week 4: CBC and then start the routine all over again
  

This would happen for a total of 8 treatments (4 of each) over 16 weeks. Attached are some external links for more information about these drugs: Lomustine and Vinblastine. Prepped with tons of information from the vet & an estimate of the treatment plan we scheduled our appointments and headed home.