The plan for Lola’s chemo routine went like this – she’d receive a treatment, and then come back in a week for an exam and a CBC (complete blood count) test to check that all was still in balance. If all was […]

August 23, 2018 – When we arrived at NorthStar Vets, we were happy to see that they were not too crowded. As an ’emergency’ we were checked in quickly and spoke almost immediately with an intake tech. This facility is extremely well […]

Lola’s cough was not going away (it didn’t seem much worse either) so I called for an appointment at our local vet, Whitehouse Veterinary Hospital. They were able to get us in the next day, August 14, 2018. We waited outside the […]

Lung cancer. Those words struck like a one-two punch to my stomach as our vet explained what she was seeing on Lola’s x-ray. Lola started coughing two weeks prior; it was just a small annoying – but persistent – cough. I thought […]