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YES!
Go Willa!
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1 minute ago, ramonaghan said:
You know we're gonna need a
. I'm so glad she is continuing to do well!
Willa has follow-up X-rays and bloodwork today.
Good luck! Keep us posted.
I was trying to figure out how to post pics.
I used to host pics on another site and link but I don’t have that anymore.-
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@ramonaghan I forgot! I bought those shirts!
They fit PERFECT! Just sewed up the one hole and she was good to go!-
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Amelia is still doing great!
Today marks 3 weeks since surgery.
She started playing with her favorite toy again. That is so nice to see.
We have left her off leash more and more in the yard… she seems to appreciate being able to poop in peace.
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Just now, ramonaghan said:
Yes, she will!
I can’t believe how agile Willa is in that one video!
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1 minute ago, ramonaghan said:
Way to go, Amelia!
You show those stairs who's boss.
"Bopping along."
Perfectly described.
Give her some time and she will turn that bopping into zoomies!
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UPDATE:
4 days first chemo treatment…
Amelia has been great! ONLY little thing I can say is she’s been a little pickier than normal with food.
She is still healing fantastic!
We have been letting her off the leash for a little bit in the yard… we make sure the neighbor’s dog isn’t out (they like to run the fence line) and no deer in sight. She has done very well bopping along and not flying down the hill to come in.
TODAY she came up one of the sets of 5 stairs on her own like it was nothing!
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That’s fantastic!
Poor Amelia had lost 8 teeth so far… she doesn’t seem to have good teeth and gums.Carmen has much better teeth but bad breath?
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Perfect bed fail
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23 minutes ago, ramonaghan said:
OMG I remember that!
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3 hours ago, ramonaghan said:
1. I bought these sleeveless shirts from Amazon and just sewed up one arm hole. (And then I turned one shirt into a piñata costume, but I digress...) If you have an old t-shirt you can spare, you can do the same thing and just tie up the excess fabric into a knot at her back.
2. That leg's doing a lot of extra work these days. Totally normal for it to be sore until she adjusts. Was she standing for a while at the vet appointments yesterday?
Oh they are great! I will get a pair of those.
I had been using t-shorts cut up but wanted something that fit a bit better.
Piñata?
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Ok so a few things here....
1. Does anyone know of a good place that makes little jacket/shirts for tripods? I'd like to have her don a shirt for a while.
2. Ugh she's freaing me out today... she's always been a licker, but today she's been licking her other front paw/ankle. I know it's probably nothing but it's making me nervous.
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11 hours ago, Beachbum1 said:
Taylor had the same chemo. ZERO side effects.
He was a happy, hopping, 3-legged hound for a few weeks less than 2 years, until something else sent him to the Bridge.
Loving and DEMANDING rides and walks 2-3 times a day, every single day, starting around 3 weeks after surgery. "Shopping" in stores. Walking the boardwalk at the beach, with Facebook, 3-4 times a week. Wandering around downtowns.
Every day was a "meet and greet" for him.
Loving the hugs he got from people who whispered in his ear what a strong BIG boy he was. (He LOVED hugs from anyone and everyone).
So wonderful to hear everyone’s positive stories post amp. I am cautiously optimistic that we have a long time still with Amelia.
First 24 hours after chemo treatment #1 and all seems well. She was wiped out last isn’t but I think the ride and appts were just a lot of activity for her.
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16 minutes ago, ramonaghan said:
I wonder if he was thinking of one of the other immunotherapies, like FidoCure or Torigen or Elias. The Yale vaccine definitely does not require a sample of the tumor, just a diagnosis confirmed through biopsy and an anticipated survival time of at least three months. Again, no pressure or judgment either way, I just want to make sure you have accurate info! Amp and chemo are still the gold standard; anything extra is like you said: a roll of the dice.
Yeah, hopefully this is all she needs (fingers crossed and knock on wood).
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Thx gang!
and good to hear about Willa! She is becoming our benchmark!As for the vaccine: we asked about it. Our Oncologist said they were asked to participate with the trial and they turned it down for various reasons.
He also said they would want the tumor/sample and that isn’t available anymore.So for now no, we are not going to go that route and roll the dice without.
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UPDATE!
Amelia is home from appointments!
1. Post Surgery Appt: the surgeon LOVED how well she healed. Staples were removed.
He said greyhounds are the worst with complications and he said she looks fantastic! We definitely dod a great job limiting her activity, etc.
She can increase activity, but he'd like to see her kept on the leash at least one more week.2. Oncology Appt: met with the doctor (sadly we already knew him from our other grey who went through treatment). He was as thorough and friendly and caring as I remember. I first took time to just say hi to Amelia, getting on the ground with her, petting her and speaking softly to her. This made me smile.
Then he went in a very lengthy explanation of cancer in dogs, Osteosaracoma, etc. There was SO much info I was glad he didn't quiz us afterwards!
So good news: Amelia was best case scenario... all scans, including lymph nodes showed clear. She has a very good outlook to be around for a while
She started her chemo today... Carboplatin IV every 3 weeks for 4-6 treatments. They wanted to start right away, and since we were already there and they had time, they fit her in.
We take her to the regular vet in a week to check white blood cell count.
If all looks good there we are back in 3 weeks for the second dose.We were sent home with 4 days of anti-nausea meds... mandatory. We were also given Entice since she's a picky eater already, and a med for diarrhea just in case.
Overall great appointments!
We are staying positive and hopeful.
Thank you all again for all the great advice and listening to me as we got through the first 2 weeks!
I will definitely keep you all updated on progress.
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13 minutes ago, greysmom said:
Hey everyone!
I don't want to hijack Amelia's recovery journey, but we're on page 49 of this thread and I need a feeling from others as to if we should keep it going with a new iteration or just let this one be the last.
It was such an integral information source for a very long time, but treatment and knowledge, and internet information sources have come a long ways from where they used to be when this particular thread was started in 2016. In the beginning we would go through 2 or 3 of these threads a year, and now we've been bringing this one up for 8 years now. I haven't gone back to see if any of the links in the first post are even active or have useful information anymore.
So do you think a Part 10 is necessary and worth it??
I am ok if you start a new thread. I can finish Amelia’s journey there?
And my update today:
Less than 24 hours till follow up!
I am hoping we can let her off-leash at least after the appts. Maybe a short walk even!Also I saw Amelia ball up her blanket this morning! I haven’t seen her be able to do that since surgery!
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2 hours ago, EllenEveBaz said:
Extra cheers from this sideline.
Milo says he'll be there for future deer chases. He says he'll run 'em down and you chomp 'em, Amelia. (Milo no longer has molars.) Teamwork makes the dream work.
Haha sounds good!
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10 minutes ago, BatterseaBrindl said:
Our front amp gal, Joshi, has no issues going up or down our 13 steps.
She is not a tall leggy greyhound, so the center of balance is a bit lower. She's about 45 pounds. Saluki/GSDx.
She goes up very slowly - one step at a time. I think it takes a lot of abs to lift the front leg up, then one-at-a-time the back legs. Rinse and repeat. It's slow.
Going down is pretty fast... Hop Hop Hop.
Our previous front-amp boy was smaller and a senior, but he did the stairs just like Joshi.
What a pretty girl!
Thx for that. Maybe she will be fine.
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19 minutes ago, ramonaghan said:
The staple theory makes sense. Neither of my girls had staples so I can't weigh in on that specifically, but they were definitely more comfortable when the sutures came out.
I think the surgeon was a bit nervous about her wound pulling apart so he added the staples.
When we had our discharge visit with the tech she mentioned he didn’t usually use them.Amelia is a bit of a drama queen… but I don’t want to take anything from her having lost a limb.
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4 hours ago, greysmom said:
We have a 13 step, steep run of wooden stairs up to the second floor where the bedroom is. Dude was *absolutely* going to sleep upstairs in the bedroom, even though his Dad was with him downstairs all night. He was so determined that - after a couple months - we finally just bit the bullet and let him figure it out - with supervision, of course. He was way happier and less frustrated (and frustrating!) once he could do what he wanted. We still blocked the stairs - up and down - so he couldn't do them unsupervised. The webmaster harness with the handle on top was really helpful with the stairs.
But again, he was missing a back leg, not a front leg. Going down is much trickier for front amps!!
We were thinking of ways to gate off the upstairs when not supervised, aka - we aren’t home in the future.
I think she’d make it upstairs, but coming down I cringe.
Found some nice retractable gates we could use.
I think the harness we were sent will work nice helping her come downstairs. We just need to have her in case she gets too much momentum.In other news…
So we think the staples might be causing her sudden yelps.
They are becoming loose and may be poking her.
Poor girl has no meat on her side so I can imagine it’s not comfortable.Only 2 more days!
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The last photo
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1 minute ago, greysmom said:
Dude was in the hospital a couple extra days post amp. I think we brought him home on day 4. He was ready to come home - we heard him bouncing down the hall to the room to meet us at the hospital, bounced out to the car to come home, laid right down all the way. They'd told us at discharge he hadn't gone potty that morning, so we took him to the backyard when we got home. I DO NOT know what we were thinking, but we took him off the leash so he could wander around and go.
He proceeded to zoom around the yard a whole circuit, before stopping on a dime, dropping a huge poop, and then running up on to the deck to go inside. My heart was in my throat the entire time and I had started to wonder how long it would take us to get back to the hospital when he crashed and burned. But he was fine and so happy to be home it was hard to stay mad at him!!
I had that scared-but-proud feeling a lot in the next few months as he learned to renavigate on three legs. Doing our stairs up to the bedroom was a big one!!! The up part was fairly easy for him, despite being a rear leg amp, but I held my breath on the downs every time. Dude did not have the words "be careful" in his dictionary!!
HAHA I think Amelia would have taken off MANY times these last almost 2 weeks had she not been on a leash.
We are still figuring out the big upstairs staircase. 9 stairs is a lot, and I worry the will get too much momentum going down them.
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33 minutes ago, ramonaghan said: Four more sleeps, Amelia, and then you can chase whatever you want!
Yes… HOWEVER she’s gonna have to learn to not come flying down the hill.
Now that she doesn’t have the same breaking power.
. I'm so glad she is continuing to do well!
Perfectly described.
Osteo Thread Part 10
in Health and Medical discussion
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Darn it… still trying to figure out how to post a pic.