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Gabbar - Post Amputation Concerns
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7 December 2016 - 8:59 pm
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I am so sorry to be reading this tonight. My heart goes out to you and yours.  The trio of Tripawds- Gabbar, Rosie and Cooper.  They all had surgery within a day or two of each other.  Cooper and Gabbar lost their battles so soon.  Rosie is struggling with chemo.  

Please know that your dedication to Gabbar and his happy, bouncy self has helped many, including me and my pack.  

My heart breaks for you as you struggle and grieve.  It's so very hard.  We are here for you. 

Kellye

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11 December 2016 - 3:29 am
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Just wanted you to know that we are all thinking about you, and feeling both your pain on grieving and the joy of your life with Gabbar.

Otis - 106 pound lab/Dane mix, lost his right front leg to osteosarcoma on Febuary 9, 2016.  Four rounds of carboplatin completed in April, 2016.  Lung mets August 25, 2016.  Said goodbye too soon on September 4, 2016.   Lost his adopted sister, Tess, suddenly on October 9, 2016. likely due to hemangiosarcoma.  

Wherever they are, they are together.



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11 December 2016 - 5:37 pm
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Oh nooooo 😔

I am so, so, so sorry to hear Gabar is no longer with you 😞😞

You did everything you could possibly do and in the end your boy decided it was time to go ... he has left you but his spirit is forever with you and your family 💕

Gabar lives in your heart forever and is now watching over his loving family until the time comes for all of you to reunite.

My heart is with yours and your wife's, I am really, really sorry 😞

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 :-) 

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12 December 2016 - 8:10 pm
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Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. It's just so difficult getting on with life without him. We miss him every moment, in whatever we do. Suzy is slowly learning to deal with the loss. She was a mess for the first few days. Now she's slowly getting out of it. Making some new friends. Thank you all so much for your support.

Read about Gabbar's journey from diagnosis to amputation at

http://gabbar.t.....eosarcoma/

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15 December 2016 - 5:54 pm
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Vijay,

I'm so glad to hear that Suzy is doing better.  I think a lot of people don't realize (and I didn't) that the surviving pets do grieve for their buddies when they pass.  It is a scary situation because you are grieving yourself and your sweet pets can't sit down and cry with you and talk to you about their feelings....and it scares the shit out of you because you are worried that they might die of a broken heart! 

How are you and your wife doing?  I still feel like I am sometimes a mess - just two weeks out from losing Ted..... getting the card from the Vet with a dozen signatures on it, getting cards from friends and family, going on with our "normal" life and running into people who ask about our sweet dog and having to break the news to them in a public forum, etc.  It is so hard for me - especially because I like to cry in private, and I do a lot of that still. But, chin up....I would rather love and cry and feel those emotions vice feel nothing - and that is the risk we take when we let these souls into our life - right?

I hope you and your family are doing well.

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16 December 2016 - 12:46 am
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We are coping. We had a string of 4 good days and then this morning, both of us suddenly felt his void again and it got quite tough. I know exactly what you mean about telling people about it. In our apartment complex, people don't necessarily know me by name, but everyone knows Suzy and Gabbar. They know me as the "guy with the dogs". And suddenly someone comes up during the morning or nightly walks and is like, "Hey, didn't you have two dogs?" And then I have to retell the story all over and it's not easy replaying it again and again in your mind. Very few hours go by during any given day that I don't think about the events of Gabbar's last day and his cremation.

Suzy was herself for the first day after Gabbar passed. She just went about things normally. I was a bit surprised that she wasn't responding to the situation. From the second day she was a wreck. But now, she's coped and in the moment. Back to her lazy and silly self. She's socializing with other dogs during walks. Chasing cats. She's doing ok. I just feel terrible about leaving her home alone when my wife and I have to work. Before, it never bothered me. Suzy and Gabbar had each other, and while of course, they'd miss us for those hours, they had each other.

I hope you're healing too. I don't think we who have lost our pooches, especially to something as terrible as cancer, which was totally out of our control, rendering us helpless, will ever be able to overcome the loss. It will keep coming back to us again and again. That void will never be filled. We just cope and handle that feeling better as each day passes. The pain remains the same, but we just get more tolerant of it.

Read about Gabbar's journey from diagnosis to amputation at

http://gabbar.t.....eosarcoma/

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16 December 2016 - 2:43 am
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I can totally relate to your comment about the walks.  I had two big black dogs.  About a month after Otis passed of osteosarcoma, I started looking for a companion for Tess, and then she died suddenly of hemangiosarcoma (which I didn't even know she had).  I ended up rescuing the identified companion anyway, but he is yellow.  People stop me all the time with "don't you have black dogs?"  And then the whole story has to come out.  I try to focus on the joy of their lives, not the end.  The blog post about mets is using Otis' X-ray photo - really hard for me to even sign onto the site right now since that is a memory of his death (he passed a little over a week after) and it keeps popping up.  But, I have always believed that death is a time to celebrate the life lived and try to focus on that.  And life with a dog is so much about joy and love, and only a tiny bit at the end about sadness.  We are thinking about you.

Otis - 106 pound lab/Dane mix, lost his right front leg to osteosarcoma on Febuary 9, 2016.  Four rounds of carboplatin completed in April, 2016.  Lung mets August 25, 2016.  Said goodbye too soon on September 4, 2016.   Lost his adopted sister, Tess, suddenly on October 9, 2016. likely due to hemangiosarcoma.  

Wherever they are, they are together.

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