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9:59 pm
Here's my story... about 3 months ago my loving husband of 25 years accidendely ran over one of my old Pyrenees dogs. It was her right front leg. The break was REAL bad,and the new vet of mine gave me real hope to save her life. We went the route of surgery with large screws and pins. (she was around 128#) This attemp failed because she was so big and the brake so fragmented. But the good news was, we spent a LOT of quality time together with me changing her bandages every day for (2 months). You may think I'm being sarcastic now, but I'm not. We really did form a different kind of bond that we never would have had otherwise. You see, "Xena" was a working dog. She helped guard the baby camel and zebra as well as all the other livestock on our farm. But she has a loving nature that is too remarkable for other species you won't believe! Next we splinted her. We gave that 2 months, not a good improvment. So, after the encouragement from my vet, we will be doing amputation on Tuesday the 14 of September, 2010. I have ordered the vest from this site (in red of coarse:) and want to tell all of you how much I have regained my faith since reading over this website all day. (really:)
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Welcome to Tripawds and thanks for joining! We're starting to have quite a zoo around here – Dawn (dsimas) is into big cats. We also have quite a few other memebrs with Great Pyrenees.
Thnaks for the kind comments and best wishes to Xena. Be sure to bookmark Jerry's Required Reading List for lots of answers to common questions, advice and recovery tips.
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Since your dog doesn't have cancer, she most likely will have a good post recovery! The first 2 weeks are critical regardless with the whole "relearning how to walk", making sure they don't lick their stitches, relearning how to go to the bathroom… But you don't have to worry about whether the cancer has spread or not, so once those 2 weeks are over, it should be all downhill from there!
Chloe was diagnosed with a spindle cell sarcoma (soft tissue) which was confined to the area, so luckily with amputation she is now cancer free. Here is a video of her running! This is from week 5 post amputation but she was doing this around the end of week 2!! Trust me, they surprise you more than you think! Just keep giving them love and positive energy and they will think the world is fine and will work to do the things they used to love in a new way!!!
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