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    Lois Has Bone Cancer - How Much Pain Is Too Much?

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    This disease is nasty and terriable. My grey died from osteosarcoma on 5/1/08. It metastasized and we had to put my grey down due to neurological complications and too much pain. The x-rays of my dog's cancer showed that it ate through his entire leg and hip and was spreading. Out of the blue one day he just started acting funny and ran into a fence. Look I know from experience what a difficult situation you are going through and the only advice I can give is spend as much time with your buddy as you can. Keep her comfortable, give her lots of hugs and kisses, and be by her side no matter what the future holds. Giving her lots of love because love is the best medication. I am so sorry this happended to your hound. It happended to mine and writing this is making me cry. So I wish you the best of luck an will pray for your hound.

     

    I agree wholeheartedly with the above. Work with your vet, work with your heart. You will know the right course to take. What my vet told me when Scarlett went through this was that if she needs more pain meds, then adjust the dosage. Sadly, you are not looking to extend time but to make time comfortable for her. If you can, take some vacation time and be with Lois. And give her any darn thing in the world that she wants to eat. Now I'm starting to cry.

     

    Lots of prayers for you and Lois.

    I Hate E-vets

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    I feel your pain. The closest eVet to me is staggeringly expensive. Yes, I understand that NYC is expensive in general but the also add rudeness in to the mix which just makes it worse. When I lost Morgaine it cost me over $2,000 for them to examine her, administer valium, and have two techs hold her on the table during the seizure. An additional $500 to cremate her. When they called me the day after I lost her to look for more money I nearly went ballistic.

     

    The same practice did the same thing years earlier when Scarlett developed a blood clot after surgery there. The eVet refused to call me back from his home since I had caller ID (like I wanted to call him at home?) and then when we got there tried to stop me from leaving because he didn't know how to use the computer system to access the credit card number on file.

     

    I'm more than willing to pay whatever it takes to give my girls the best care, I just don't understand why within the same city (the Animal Medical Center -- the BIG eVet) costs far less. Unfortunately, in both of these cases, closeness counted.

    Lump On Guinn's Leg

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    It looks like a histiocytoma. Aquitaine got a histiocytoma on her belly a month after I got her. It was about the size of a quarter and scared me to death. The vet said it could be a mast cell tumor or a histiocytoma and aspirated it and it came back as a histiocytoma. Best to get it checked so that you know (and can stop panicking). My vet said that sometimes they will continue to come back for the life of the dog but we've had no reappearances.

     

    Guinness, take care and stop licking!

    Nutro Food

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    I'm a coward when it comes to my girl. She was getting soft stools and throwing up bile on her last order of Nutro several months ago. I switched her to Evo/Innova and some Iams and there have been no problems since then. The Innova/Evo is a whole lot more expensive but absolutely worth the peace of mind.

     

    During the recall last year I switched to Newman's Organic and she happily ate that for several months then decided she didn't like it anymore.

    Explosive Poop

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    My first two girls couldn't do canned food so I haven't even tried with Aquitaine. Both Scarlett and Morgaine got the explosive poops from canned food. Morgaine also couldn't eat turkey (I found out the hard way) for the same reason. Pepto Bismol does help.

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