Let's play scientist!

OK, are you all ready? You're going to be a part of my experiment, as we work towards Ginger's health. Here's the premise for this experiment:

Ginger is a nearly 13 year old yellow lab. She's in reasonable health for an old dog, but has several lipoma (fatty tissue) tumors, and a few serious mast cell tumors that are taking over her poor old body. The advice from the vet? Let her die in peace. Don't operate.

(we operated on one of them because it was torn open, but otherwise we've left them alone)

I was talking with a friend recently and she told me about this miraculous new product that had worked wonders on dogs that she knew of. I looked it up online and was impressed with the documents. I e-mailed the head guy and he wrote back with lots of further information. So here goes:

I ordered the stuff.

You will be a part of this experiment on a daily basis. All of the posts will start with an experimental heading. I won't tell you what the product is unless it works (in case any of you are using it, I don't want to discourage you).

Day one: Friday: Measured Ginger's biggest tumor (my baseline) and it is 12 inches circumference and 3 inches in height from her body. It is a solid mass with the feel of a grapefruit. I gave Ginger one capsule in the morning and one in the evening.

No change.

Day two: Saturday: Gave Ginger 2 capsules in the morning and 2 in the evening (they seemed to be well tolerated). No change. (I will measure the tumor weekly)

Day three: Sunday: Gave Ginger 2 capsules in the morning and 2 in the evening. No change except she seems to be getting around a bit better and I'm not giving her any Flexamin anymore.

Sidenote: Mucho is getting a size proportionate dosage too. His only condition is that he is a stinky little dog. The guy I talked to said "Who knows, maybe it'll help stinky dogs!" We'll see. I give him one in the morning and one at night and he is one seriously smelly dog now. It's sure doing something to his insides, but God only knows what!

More to come tomorrow!

Time to slow down a bit

Well here it is, the end of November. It seems like yesterday when I wrote in this blog, but facts show it to be October 31st. Wow. So our trip to Orlando for the National Assoc of Realtors convention went well. Strange creatures bit me on a regular basis, leaving bloody welts to make my pantyhose look gross. I didn't get to enjoy the Florida weather, I ate too much, I wore way too much evening wear, BUT I enjoyed a lot of meetings and banquets. I guess that's why I go. George had a good time, though, and hung out by the pool working on his tan. Rough huh?

Shortly after we got back from Orlando we prepared to leave for Mexico. We had a really fun time, but were ready to go home after the 7 days. I felt sort of bad for Crystal. She had to watch everybody else drinking (though not really to excess) but she was a good girl and took good care of my baby. (Sorry everybody, apparently I've laid claim already. he he :) )It started out a little blustery in Cozumel, but cleared up for most of our trip. I'll put some pictures up here when I go to my other computer, they're all on it. More to come on the Cozumel trip.

I'm ready for December to come, business is slow, but marketing is busy and George has some big projects to work on. Talk to you soon! ttfn