Some improvement

Jazz exploded on the way out to the car leaving the vet last night, but hasn't been since (except one outing at 5am for a wee). Fiona gave him a precautionary long-lasting anti-biotic injection yesterday, and he's had his Vincristine.

As far as prognosis is concerned, we're probably counting in weeks or possibly a small number of months before we lose him. It's difficult though, because although the diarrhoea is obviously quite tiring when he gets it, he doesn't appear distressed by it, and between times he's bright as a button ... although obviously less active than he used to be. And of course, he has this amazing capacity for bouncing back after apparently quite major setbacks, so it's going to be really difficult to decide when one of these is not going to be recoverable. It's going to be a rollercoaster ride for all of us (and Fiona includes herself in this), but ... we'll deal with that when we get there.

In the meantime, he's back at the vet today for his usual post-Vincristine drip. (As the cancer and diarrhoea are not being co-operative enough to manage to hang on so that we can push that out to weekends, he has to go in for this rather than have it at home, which we'd prefer.)

Looks like he'll be well enough for us to go away to Flyball at the Paws in the Park extravaganza at Canford, Dorset this weekend (well, tonight actually). It's possible that Vee (one of Lynn's customers) will be the vet on call there, so I've suggested that our emergency kit should contain a canula, giving set, drip, etc., but that we don't need to leave a canula in (which is something we were considering yesterday). If he needs it, I'll get the vet on call to insert it.

Fiona did also say she might include some more anti-biotic, and since I'm such a dab-hand at subcutaneous injections now, that might be better by injection than pill too - just to make sure it really does get into his system.