4My2Greys

Annette, I am so sorry.

Jan, I am so sorry for your loss and I share your pain. Brooke was such a beautiful girl. I loved seeing pictures of you with her and Ben.

I took Chase to Auburn for his oncology consultation Wednesday. I went in ready to proceed with amputation and chemotherapy hoping to get him into the clinical trial they were doing. What they found on his examination not only excluded him from being a candidate for the clinical trial, it also took away all my hopes for any more time with him. The end of his left femur toward the knee is so deteriorated it his highly prone to fracture. That in itself was not the worse news. On his examination they also discovered a large abdominal aortic thrombus, which not only excluded him a candidate for the clinical trial, but left me with no option, but to let him go. I can take away the pain from the cancer by amputation and hopefully slow its progression with chemotherapy, but there is nothing that can be done about the thrombus or to predict when it becomes fatal. Knowing what Nadir's death was like I can't leave Chase facing the same thing not knowing when it will occur or if I will even be home when it occurs. I made a promise to Nadir to love Chase with all my heart. Today at 4:30 I will be fulfilling the hard part of that promise and saying goodbye to my sweet boy. My heart is crushed knowing the emptiness that awaits me. :cry

Welcome Rock is such a good looking boy. I'm curious, is he an older hound by chance?

He would get the same standard of care they would give even if he doesn't participate, which is amputation and 4 rounds of carboplatin. His pain management would not be compromised. There are no restrictions on pain medication. Herbal supplements, however are not allowed.

I was wondering how others feel about participating in clinical trials. I am considering putting Chase into the clinical trial for rapamycin, but then I wonder what if he is one of the dogs chosen to be given the placebo. For those who have participated or would consider doing so would this My concerns may be moot as he may not be a candidate for amputation let alone the trial. This is just one of the many things flooding my mind right now.

I love reading updates like this.

I'm really sorry to hear that more mets have shown up on Pogo's lungs. I'm curious about the torn trachea. Did they give you any idea how it could have happened?

Lungs appear to be clear at this time. Now I wait to hear from Auburn for an oncology consult. I have a lot to think about, but don't want to make any decisions before at least taking that step.

I'm glad everything is back to normal and hope it stays that way. Something that occurred to me, I don't know if you or anyone else has thought about this, but do you think it is possible that she could have ingested a mushroom from your yard?

Yesterday I was told the limp he has had is due to osteosarcoma, this morning I'm taking him in for more x-rays to see if it has spread to his lungs. Only then will I know if he has a chance at a future.

Another five minutes of it and I probably could have had the lady lying down too.

I frequently use calming signals with Chase to help him feel more relaxed. Friday I had him at the vet and thought I'd try out how they work with an unfamiliar dog. While Chase was getting x-rays taken I went to wait in the lobby. A lady was sitting there with a golden retriever that started barking in an aggressive manner when I entered the room. Instead of looking at the dog, which I'm always tempted to do, I sat as far away as I could and turning my head away I began repeated open mouth yawns. After about a minute and a half of this the dog stopped barking and laid back down and remained quiet the rest of the time until she had to go back to an examing room, at which point the loud barking started again.

My thoughts are with you as you say farewell to Benny. I hope his passing is a peaceful one.

Sending out lots of white light and good thoughts to Larry for a trouble-free dental.

I'm so sorry for the heartbreaking loss you're experiencing.

I understand your struggle. I wish it weren't so tough.

I was replying to your post then reread it again. Is the problem he doesn't want to come back in or do the not want him back in because he is eating grass?

My eyes got misty looking at that picture. Adding healing thoughts for a complete recovery for your special boy.

Jen, I'm so sorry that the diagnosis couldn't have been something better.

I'm so sorry to read this sad news. I'm glad though she was at least able to have come home.

Thinking of you and Pogo.

I'm so sorry about your loss of Louis. It makes it hard when it comes so fast and you don't have answers. I agree with tbhounds both in that the fever was probably caused by cancer and that it wasn't hemangiosarcoma. My feeling is that it was probably lymphosarcoma. My bulldog Bruiser developed hemangiosarcoma and he never presented with a fever. My greyhound Beanie however spiked a very high 106/107 fever very shortly before she was diagnosed with lymphosarcoma. The night I had to rush her to the e-vet to be euthanized she developed another incredibly high fever. I don't know what it would have registered because the goal was to end her excruciating pain as quickly as possible, but it felt like she was on fire.

No advice just prayers and white light..