When we arrived at the parking lot in the Central Park just above the 79th street, it was just drizzling and they put the raincoat on me. My master’s wife brought this new raincoat for me from Japan, which their son’s wife picked up from a department store in Tokyo. On this raincoat made in Japan, it is printed “Pet Party NYC Dog" and it fits with me very well. This picture of me in the raincoat was taken on the Bow Bridge in the Central Park. We walked for an hour through the Park to the Shakespeare Garden and back to the parking lot. We then left the Park, drove to the east end, put our car in a garage on the 63rd Street and went to AMC on the 62nd Street. This time, my master went alone to the waiting room to check me in, while leaving me and his wife at the hotel-like reception to save my shaking in the waiting room. We then went up to the 8th floor by the elevator.
On the way, I met a female terrier dog held in the arms of a wealthy looking old man. We knew each other from the previous visit. She is 13 years old, and has been treated in this hospital since last May, receiving the chemotherapy for her lymphoma. Beside the chemotherapy here, she is receiving acupuncture in another clinic, which really works well for her, according to her master. In the waiting room for oncology patients, I also met again the curly haired black dog, suffering from melanoma like me and receiving the same DNA vaccination. Her melanoma developed at her toenail bed. During our consultation, Dr. Arteoga told us that there is no recurrence in the mouse at this point. However, the review of the surgery slide submitted from Oradell Hospital did not come out clear, meaning that the area surrounding the tumor, where the cancerous cells still remain, was not removed. In order to completely cure this area, there are two options. 1) Re-surgery to take out this area completely. This would be a rather big surgery, taking out a part of the front teeth. 2) Radiation therapy on this area. Also, according to their radiologist, the small spot of concern on the x-ray picture is likely to be a spread (metastasis) from the mouth. For now, they continued with the DNA vaccination and will check this part of the lung by the X-ray picture during the next visit scheduled on December 6th.
The treatment this time was short. It took about an hour and we left the hospital before noon.