Our day began, officially, at about 5:30 AM, when we left Southeastern Massachusetts for the trip to Boston. This can take from 45 minutes to two hours, if the traffic is heavy. It only took an hour to drive there this morning, to Angell Memorial Animal Hospital, the place where miracles occur. Moses' admission time, for the day, was at 7AM.
Our early arrival gave me time to carry the huge plush stuffed animal Berner, which Sandie H. from W. Virginia sent me, into the hospital, as this was always intended as a present for Moses' internal medicine specialist. Thank you Sandie; he was delighted!
I left Angell with a heart heavy with worry and a lonely spirit as Moses would spend the usual 12 hours there for his second round of chemotherapy for osteosarcoma, to which he lost a leg. They treat Moses like the prince he will always be!
The doctors always ask me to bring a urine sample from Moses so that they can perform a renal profile. Too, they do blood work on a STAT basis. Moses' blood work was fine; WHEW! Moses spends the day in the Critical Care Unit where he receives his Cisplatin and Adriamycin and fluids and other medications and he also received Torbugesic today.
When I arrive to pick up Moses, at about 7PM, and I see the nurse walking him down the corridor toward me, my heart grows wings; I bend over to hug him and he leans into me and wags his tail with vigor and joy and my spirit sings.
Lisa Allen





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