Chemo Day

We gave blind Chance and Lonesome George their chemotherapy treatment today.  This is the week when we give them cytarabine; on alternate weeks our equine vet, Dr. Bill Brown, gives them cytoxan intravenously.

We walked Chance and George down the drive from Lena's Barn to Beauty's Barn this afternoon so we could give them the injections in the warmth of the medical suite there.  While Kathryn and I tended to Chance and George, Beth was preparing all the stalls in Beauty's Barn for the night ... filling water buckets and putting hay and grain in feeders.

In the photo Kathryn is giving George his dose.  I think he knew what was coming, because I had to pull him the entire 150 yards down the drive to Beauty's Barn.  (Ever pulled a mule?)  Once we were done, I turned George loose so he could head back on his own, and he suddenly could walk at twice the speed.  Imagine that.

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Comments

[Stephanie Socie]

Nice fleece, Kathryn! Stay warm out there. It's only slightly warmer here in Michigan, but at least my mule-pulling is indoors (and Luke is much smaller than George).

[ginger & Tobias (the greythound)]

It would have been great to have a photo of you pulling Lonesome George, Steve! What a sight (a feat) that must have been. I guess that keep your blood from freezing in your veins. Jeeze Louise! You sure are having nippy weather! I'd be wrapped up in so many layers that I would be lucky to move...heavens forbid that nature called!
Sending warm hugs from Texas,