Good news from King's Lynn

 

Rosie, Arwen and Matthew

Arwen's first walk

Some good news from King's Lynn. Baby Arwen is home, just two weeks old. She had lost weight, down to just over 3lb, and had been moved to ICU with tube feeding. But gradually she began to feed from the bottle, and her weight has now returned to her birth weight of 4lb. The tube has been removed, and she is definitely more interested in the world, though we gather her interest does not reach much past her bottle just yet. We now have a picture of the threesome at home, and she has been for her first walk on one of the rare sunny days. 

We finally returned home, a day late but glad to be back and relieve Rae and Malcolm who had gamely stayed an extra day to manage the dogs. Bronte is very weak, mostly just lying down and eating little, but she does not seem to be in pain or distress. We visited the vet this morning to get an update first hand. she has a large splenic mass that the vet thinks is a hemangiosarcoma, a particularly aggressive cancer with a poor prognosis, with or without surgery. We are reluctant to move straight to surgery as there is a high risk she might die under the knife, so we have opted for a needle biopsy to confirm that it is malignant and not benign. In the meanwhile she is to be kept quiet, with gentle walks on the lead and no running or jumping.