Some gentle beauty

Tommy worked from home today so I went to the hospital by myself. We are in limbo, waiting for next steps to happen. Gavin is looking very weak and thin, and is constantly tired. He is also starting to feel miserable and told me to cancel all our future holiday bookings today. I am also starting to feel pretty miserable myself.

If an appointment is available the PET scan should be happening tomorrow. The surgeon will be coming to see Gavin following his meeting with the panel of specialists tomorrow, so I plan to be there when he does so we can discuss what happens next. I never know when he will visit Gavin but he gave me his expected time of arrival at the hospital and I plan to go early tomorrow so I don't miss him.  Hopefully Gavin will be discharged tomorrow late in the day if he has had the PET scan. And then we have to sort out meetings with the oncologist. I am already anxious of how I will get Gavin to those meetings as no London hospital has parking, and he is not up to public transport yet so I will think up a solution.

And why do bad things always happen all at once? Yesterday evening Xena reached up to a box of brownies on the kitchen counter and ate the whole box of them - bar one which I had already eaten. She has never stolen food before but I guess she is feeling that she also needed a treat. Of course chocolate is dangerous for dogs, so I phoned the emergency vet who said I need to bring her in. Dark chocolate can cause kidney failure and her entire system to shut down, and be fatal. As I had just got back from hospital and was feeling too tired to drive across to Sutton where the emergency vet was located, Tommy took her. She was given something to induce vomiting and then came home being her usual happy and bouncy self! Being after hours and a bank holiday it was a mere £700 (!) but the emergency vet had already emailed me the necessary forms to claim from pet insurance. The insurance is quite expensive and we pay it year after year and have never claimed on it, so I think we are due a claim.

I am very anxious for tomorrow, but we have to just take one day at a time.