Hello friends- I thought I would post quickly with the name of the "Silver" cream I have been putting on Jojo's elbow- 1x daily.   ASCEND- Silver Sulfadiazine Cream USP 1%.  

I also thought I would upload a pic as Jojo and Charlie have their cousin (Chloe)  staying with us for the next 7 days- they all get along beautifully, but Jojo seems to have slowed down over the last couple days- not sure if the Elbow is getting sore or if he is just feeling a little BLAH.  We go back to UCD next week- so I'll be sure to post after our next visit.

Bye for now

Mia

Hi Mia,
Good to hear from you again, and glad to hear Jojo is still doing well.....I love these new pics of both your guys, and those new booties for Charlie should help him out in a huge way to get around without slipping. It is so awesome that this "ugly c" has been stopped in its tracks regarding Jojo, there is no news that can be better than that!!

Continue to keep us updated on both your boys, I have fallen in love with both of them,
Love,
Bonnie & Angel Polly

I have read this thread and I am pleased to hear even with all the ups and downs things seem to be going well.  My own dog was diagnosed with localised histiocytic sarcoma and survived 4.5 yrs.  I lost him last Easter to poisoning from a plant known as vinca.

You are giving your dog the best chance with what your doing. If my dog had disseminated histiocytic sarcoma UC Davis is where I would want him treated. Dr Moore is probably the most noted expert on this disease in the world.  I link to the information from Davis and found it very useful when Frodo was diagnosed as it was hard at the time to find info on it. Hugs to you both.  Thanks for posting the lovely photos and all the best and may Jojo go on enjoying life for a long time to come.

Thanks for your kind words about Frodo.  I miss him every day and the website is his legacy.  If it had not been for what I learned as a result of his journey I would never have done it. I nearly gave up a few times as it was him and I the team out there getting the message out.  Its hard but heck he loved other dogs like no other dog I have ever met so he would want me to continue.

Hopefully if time permits I can pop on over here more often.  I send everyone with amputation questions over to everyone here.  Plenty of people to give their experiences and amazingly they are mostly good.  We need more of you guys over in Aus as some forums there have people anti amputation and that grates me big time.

Thanks for the link for the Grippers.  They look pretty good

Hello Friends-

I've just gotten back from 10 days of work travel, and boy is it good to be home with all my guys!  Jojo's last check up was on March 5- he got a very good bill of health again - Basically all tumor sites have been stagnate now for about 2 months, we have shown no signs of spreading and in fact the Elbow mass has actually gone down in size. Jojo took his 5th round of Chemo and has been doing really well. Our next appointment is on the 26th and this is where we will meet with the whole vet team and re-baseline our treatment path- do we keep going with Chemo until the liver tells us its time to stop OR do we stop treatment all together to give the body time to rest and rebound.  I feel so confident that we chose the right path and that Jojo's body has responded so well to the treatment that I'm a little Leary of stopping everything. I'm interested in your thoughts and experiences.  As you might remember the original prognosis was "roughly" 6 months should we do nothing and if we chose to proceed with treatment we may buy ourselves about year.  Well we've been on this journey for 6 months now and Jojo doesn't look or seem to be anywhere near a sick dog.. so I am confused about what the next steps should be, so looking forward to your opinions.

I've taken some new photo's of the Elbow tumor- you can see how much its gone down.