Update -- 12/20/06

Copper has been doing really, really well. He is still in remission and has been acting his old nosey self! His nose is into everything! When I wrap presents, he thinks he needs to be involved! I'd like to think that he wants to help me wrap the presents, but in fact, he really just wants to see what the presents are, and determine if it is worth his time stealing and opening them.

I scared myself the other day. Each day I massage him and make sure his lympnodes are the way they are supose to be. Well, I was rubbing his head, and I felt a bump. I about freaked out! Oh no, has the cancer come back? Should I rush him to the vet? Yikes! So I rubbed again, and it turned out to be his jaw bone. He was holding his mouth in a way that it felt like a bump. Leave it to Copper to find a way to freak his mom out!

His Next visit with his oncologist is January 2nd. and my plan is for it to be another good visit. He is currently at 283 days in remission, and only has 28 days before he beats the first group of dogs in the research I conducted. The research said that 37% of the dogs stayed in remission for 311 days. He is going to beat that! His next milestone is 400 days, for 17% of the dogs beat that point!