Glad to hear it isn't cancer! Hopefully anti-inflammatories work out for her!

-Chloe's mom

Holy Cow! Our planets are NOT alligned!!!!

On Feb 15th, we lost our sweet Trigger to osteo suddenly, we let him go reluctently.

Two weeks later, we lost my Mama's boy and Calamity's littermate/twin, Morgan to what still confuses me, a "vascular incident to the respirtory center" of his brain. I would have done anything, spent anything to make him well, it was not to be so I let him go. This one broke me really bad.

Then Calamity starts limping, seriously, by now I am freaking out! Y'all already know that she is ok~ Thank God.

Yesterday, I get a panic call from my husband telling me Munchie has broken a toe ~ "Do you have x-ray eyes?" I ask, he replies "Oh, you will see when you get home!"  I do see! I have seen MANY broken toes at the racetrack & some you didn't even see the break but had to run your finger over them to hear/feel the crackle, not our Munchie, her phanlage is mangled…it is so apparent & I don't even touch it. I stablized it with a splint and gave her Metacam & tramadol knowing I would get her to our vet in the AM. She rested peacefully through the night, all was good. The report is her 3rd phalange is broken into 4 little pieces! How in the world did she do that?!? She isn't telling but maybe when she is under, she'll spill her secret to Doc Smith!   After discussing the few options we had, we chose to amputate the toe. Best thing for her to recover fast & start doing what she loves to do again ~ RUN. I'm waiting for a call from the doc to tell me I can come get her.

I now have 1 greyhound (Kade) left who hasn't seen the vet in the past 5 or 6 weeks. My husband says we are going to wrap him in bubble wrap until the planets get alligned!!

Janie & Calamity~The TriPawd…..and Munchie~The Amputee, too…..and Kade~The hot greyhound in the bubble wrap 

Metacam is meloxicam, which is available in a tablet form for people (it comes in a 7.5mg and 15mg tablet.) The local vet here calls it in to my pharmacy often. It's much less expensive than Metacam. You might want to ask the vet about it.

Lisa

PS I'm so glad Calamity doesn't have osteo!

Doc Smith called this week to say the radiologist report said there "could" be osteo in the femur head of Calamity's left rear leg so back we went for more x-rays. He put her to sleep for this set to maneuver her into all sorts of positions to see everything that needed to be seen in all sorts of angles. He shot around a dozen films altogether. He looked at them, his tech looked at them, I looked at them & a friend looked at them & none of us can see anything that looks suspicious. Doc Smith was waiting for the original films to come back so he can send them all back to the radiologist in one package for her to examine again.

Even though we all think everything is ok, I'm still holding my breath until I get the all clear from the radiologist.

She continues to limp, sometimes refusing to even put down that rear foot  :-(

I just wish this would end & we could get back to our normal~sigh.

Janie