Kara is a 7 1/2 year old white Boxer that is 70 lbs.  I got a new puppy in July and as puppy's do, he would chew and bite at Kara.  I noticed Kara limping and looked her over and I noticed the puppy had broken the skin and she had some scabs on her neck.  Brushed off the limp as dogs playing and rough housing.  Fast forward a couple weeks ( had puppy shots, my own medical scare) etc.  Kara is still limping, I make a vet appt and they look her over.  My vet says let's take a x-ray.  First film gets put up, I say "what's that"? She says well it's obvious that something is going on l, as you can see it yourself.  She goes and looks some things up.  Her and the other vet's in the office all look over the x-rays.  Not a clear case of Osteosarcoma, but that is what they are all leaning towards.

So the world literally stopped for me, I was devastated.  That was on a Friday, and I scheduled a biopsy for Monday.  I came home and looked up everything I could find.   Found this website and have been lurking for weeks. Monday came and I took her in with the GET RID OF THE CANCER NOW!  I didn't want it to have another second to spread to her lungs or anywhere else. I told her to take the leg off.  My vet ran blood test and did chest X-rays and called me and actually talked me out of the amputation.  Kara's blood counts were good and no sign of it spreading to the lungs.  They did do the biopsy and her vet thought they got a good sample.  So wait another week for the biopsy to come back inconclusive. 😠

She has been on Meloxicam 1/2 pill once a day and  Tranadol 50mg 1 1/2 pills twice a day since the first day.  At first I thought she would hurt herself.  It was like she felt no pain,    And it's been 3 weeks and now she limps all the time.  Well tomorrow morning we go in and redo the x-rays and see what her leg looks like.   So prayers, positive thoughts for my baby girl would be greatly appreciated.