That first night at the Stone Villa motel, I’m amazed I slept at all. The last word from the doctors at UC Davis veterinary hospital, when we left Jasmine Blue with them for yet more tests, was if I didn’t hear anything by 10:30 the next morning, that was a good sign; it meant they […]
One of the best things about being a dog is that you have no clue when you’re going to the dentist. Don’t get me wrong; I have a wonderful dentist, Dr. Sima Salimi on Union Street, but as much as I like Dr. Salimi and her staff, I would rather not see them. Still, as […]
Seven days after Jazzy’s dental work, we headed back to Davis to see if her mouth had healed enough to proceed with radiation therapy. The doctors had informed me it usually took somewhere between 10 and 14 days, but because Jazzy’s tumor was so aggressive, they wanted to start radiation as soon as possible. Steve […]
The night before Jazzy’s first radiation treatment, I was a nervous wreck. I had no idea what to expect, and she had no idea what she was about to go through. We arrived in Davis around 4 p.m. on Tuesday and checked into our new home (at least for the month of September), Room 206 […]
Jazzy and I fell into a comfortable routine last September, leaving Davis Friday afternoon after her radiation treatment, spending the weekend at home in San Francisco, and heading back to Davis Monday morning. It reminded me a bit of when I was a kid and my family made the annual pilgrimage back East to spend […]
I thought living in Davis for a month would seem like a lifetime, but instead it was over before I was ready to go back to the fulltime hustle and bustle of San Francisco. Jazzy and I developed a nice routine, rising early in the morning and going for a walk along the creek-side trail […]
Side effects from Jazzy’s radiation treatments started to rear their ugly head during our final week in Davis, toward the end of September 2010, with red chapping around her lips – it looked tender, and I knew it had to be painful. By the first week of October, there was swelling around her lips, and […]