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Poor sleep & accelerating the schedule
Gizmo isn’t sleeping through the night, which means we aren’t sleeping through the night. He tosses and turns and makes a racket when he tried to get up…
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Questioning our target timeline & setting stricter eval criteria
On the 18th we did a one-week check-in and his Journeys quality of life score again. It went up a little bit, but we’re still solidly in the…
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Setting a target date
We’ve been doing the quality of life assessment every evening for the past week. There are good days and we don’t feel we are ready to call it…
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Changing his food
Gizmo has been in a really good mood and a real demanding cuddle monster this week. We used to call him a “torpedo puppy” because he’d come attack…
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Starting quality of life assessments
On Aug 11, 2024 our basement AirBnB guests came up to say hello to Gizmo and pet him for a good while as we chatted, which he loved.…
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The post-chemo rut
On August 9, 2024 Gizmo had a doxorubicin chemotherapy injection session. On days when he’ll be sedated we can’t feed him, we sedate him, and then he is…
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