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4:04 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Go !
(albeit not as energetic as before ...)
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
4:06 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Oh boy ... I am finished for the day ...
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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
4:28 pm
Bucketeers
27 July 2014
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Aww Eurydice, you have a perfect bony butt. It doesn't look like it stops you from hopping around. By the way, you could make chess very exciting by swiping one of the chess pieces and make everyone chase you.
Just don't swallow it!
Enjoy the family Teresa and Eurydice 
Kerren and the Catz
4:39 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Today started with Mom panicking over my butt, yes, you read that correctly 🙈
She took me out for my morning pee and poop, I was happily hopping sniffing around 🐽 and all of a sudden Mom focused on my butt and goes ARGHHHH 😱😳
Stop right there baby girl and let me take a look at your butt 👀 🍑
Apparently I have three lumps on my back side but I could not see what the fuss was about 🐸
Mom panicked big time, I am sorry to say, and called the hospital in the UK as if they could do anything over the phone ...
And then she storms back to the house, for once dragging me after her 🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪 (the norm is the opposite) gets my lead and my hospital file, literally commanded me to jump in the car 👈🏼 right NOW ☝🏼and off we went to the emergency hospital in Antibes 💨💨💨💨💨💨🚀
On the way there, Mom was using more swear words than I could count, all directed to the osteo monster as she called it (and that was the mildest word)
But luckily the vet who saw me said it was an infection and Mom being Mom got up from her chair there and then and started making her mad dance and crazy yuhuuuuu's saying how glad she was I had an infection 😁
As a side note I have to add this particular vet had never met Mom, so wasn't expecting all of this mad sheering 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
And to make it even crazier Mom hugs me (my ribs are still hurting) and states we are heading to the closest burger joint to celebrate these wonderful news with two cheeseburgers just for me 🍔🍔
I honestly thought Mom risked being considered seriously deranged, after all only tripawd's pawrents celebrate a butt infection with cheeseburgers, as Karen later put it quite accurately 😂😂
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
4:47 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Hey Eli and Mona and Mom 😸😺💗
So lovely to hear from you and what a great idea you gave me just now 💡
Mom's grandkids are back tomorrow so I can try that, yes 😄 it will be so much fun 😆
But shhhhhh .... let's keep it quiet 🤐 nobody says a word about this plan, ok😷?
Give your Mom some purrs and woof woofs from me and I'm sure Mom would send your Mom huge hugs if she knew we are talking now 💕💕💕🐾🐾🐾💞
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
4:58 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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After gulping down my famous cheeseburgers (I am loving my butt infection) Mom took me to a forest nearby and I was busy checking this out ... what can this be?
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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
5:00 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Still checking ...
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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
5:01 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Oh ... nothing much ....
Better move on then ...
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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
5:04 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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A little rest before going back
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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
5:06 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Sunset was about to happen when we got back
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
5:08 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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And now I am dreaming of more cheeseburgers ...
Mom has to apply antibiotic on my butt for 20 days so with luck she will give me one burger a day, paws crossed ...
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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
5:45 am
Bucketeers
15 December 2015
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You know what Eurydice, we are so pleased for you, we are all going to eat a cheeseburger in your fabulous honour. Oh yes. And you know what else, you don't need to keep your paws crossed (and you know it). Your Mum will buy you a burger a day for certain because she's just so happy. We all are. Here's to you, Madam Boney Butt!
Sending love,
Meg and Clare (and Elsie Pie) xxx
Ruby, Staffy, born June 2022, became a Tripawd, November 2023, adopted January 2024.
Also Angel Tripawd Meg (aka The Megastar), who died in April 2023, aged 14, after seven glorious years on three, and Angel Staffies Elsie Pie and Bille. In the pawprints of giants...
2:50 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Hey Meg, Elsie and Mom 🐶🐶😊
So happy to hear from your fluffy lovely selves and your wonderful Mom ☺️
I would so love to organise a burger pawty maybe one day we can all get together and have a blast 🎈🎉🎈🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🎈🎊🎈
In the meantime I will keep licking my bum when Mom's not looking so it will take longer to heal 🐸
The things one has to for a nice daily meal, hey 😉
Sending you and your Mom lots of XL licks and slobbery kisses 🐮👅👅👅👅👅
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
3:08 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Today was such a glorious morning I just wandered down to the garden and had a nap in the shade
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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
3:09 pm
Bucketeers
21 May 2016
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Wait'a minute ... did I hear Mom calling ?
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Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
