12 days post-SC

its been 12 days since rah received stem cells - and i think its clear they gave him the cells of a very very very bad dog!!!!

he's doing fine - great, even. he's evil. he's light chasing up a storm, he's chewing up pillows (and lydia's blanket), he's being a butthead.

he has experienced absolutely no negative side effects from the stem cell treatment/procedure that i can see whatsoever, not even any clipperburn from where they shaved him

(and his student made sure they only shaved him a very little bit!)

his new medication schedule is a killer - he's on mexiletine every 8 hours, so that really screws with being away from him for any extended period of time. my life now revolves around making sure my cardio dog has meds every 8 hours - bye bye social life (did i have one before hand?) - compounded by the fact that there are OTHER meds being given as well...

8 am - sotalol, mexiletine

1 pm - atopica

4 pm - mexiletine

8 pm - sotalol, benazepril

midnight - mexiletine

yeah, it's great. the biggest stretch i get is the 8 hours that we are generally sleeping and doing morning things... but he's worth it!!!!!!

so, for now - im hopeful. he's doing well. for the moment, i feel that this dark cloud is slightly further away - it's still hanging around, but for now im going to pretend it's not there.