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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 :-)
This photo is too great!
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.
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 :-)
Well, I would have responded sooner, but I was too busy playing the video of Rui Rabolo gently pouring water over Eurydice to cool her off over and over and over!!! I kept visualizing myself in Eurydice's place!
But I digress!
It is so much fun to watch Eurydice having so much fun and to hearing you laughing and having so much fun! You really have done a great job of taking us on your vacation adventure with you. The scenery is beautiful...and no, I'm not just talking about Rui!! 
The beach and beautiful sky are breathtaking!
Seeing Eurydice in a state of bliss and enjoying her life pain free is magic, absolute magic!
Know the two of you ate truly touching hearts and inspiring others in ways you will never know! This journey is so much more than "just" an amputation. It's about so many life lessons and it's about love...it's about spreading love...love of strangers...love of people we will never meet. Thanknp .you and Eurydice for helping to spread the love and the joy that our dogs all brought us, here to share.
Okay...going go grab a bucket of water and watch Rui Rabolo again!! 🙂 🙂
LOVE!!
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
OMD!!!
You never know what will wash up with the tide 
She is joy personified playing on the beach. I hope your trip never ends.
Karen
Tri-pug Maggie survived a 4.5 year mast cell cancer battle only to be lost to oral melanoma.
1999 to 2010
OMG !!!! That face in the sand!!! The ocean is my zen and my happy place .... I love watching her dig! Simply the best!!! Like Karen... hope your trip never ends!
Shelby Lynne; Jack Russell/Shiba Inu mix. Proud member of the April Angels of 2014.
October 15, 2000 to April 8, 2014
Our story: Broke rear leg in June 2013 - non-conclusive results for cancer so leg was plated and pinned. Enlarged spleen in September 2013 and had it removed and was diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma and started chemotherapy. Became a Tripawd January 8th, 2014 and definitive Hemangiosarcoma diagnosis. Three major surgeries in 7 months and Shelby took them all like a champ only to lose her battle to cancer in her brain. We had 8 amazing extra months together and no regrets. #shelbystrong #loveofmylife
Well, somehow I haven't seen all of these pictures since the first few. So just now catching up. Eurydice always looks so happy and brings a smile to my face. It looks like you are having such an amazing adventure! You've gotten such beautiful pictures, some worth blowing up & framing.
Donna
Donna, Glenn & Murphy
Murphy had his right front leg amputated due to histiocytic sarcoma at 7 years old. He survived 4 years, 2 months & 1 week, only to be taken by hemangiosarcoma at 11 1/2 years 6/12/17
Read about Murphy's Life on Three Legs
Oh my sweet, sweet friends 💗💗💗
I am SO thrilled we are doing this together 🚙 💨💨💨
Eurydice is having such a great time and her legs are MASSIVE with all of this fun exercise, forest and beach, the ideal combination for tripawds 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
I cannot believe I had to get her doing hydrotherapy in England to keep her in shape (sadly all flat ground in London) 😶
Here we have hills of all kinds and it is all fun for her, such a lucky, lucky little girl 🐮
Plus tons and tons and tons of cuddles 😊
We are truly having the greatest time and meeting such great people, like Rui Robalo 👍🏼 not only a wonderful, sweet dog loving soul but also a handsome fella 😂
More little videos of him coming 🔜, Sally 👍🏼😄
I am going to meet his family next week, our love of dogs has bond us together and after he told his girlfriend about Eurydice that sweet girl searched the net for prosthetics for my girl ❤️
Of course, not having been on this journey before, she could not have known they don't really work with such heavy dogs ... and I am crossing my fingers and toes she will never have a furry friend with osteo 🙏🏼
Sending you all an avalanche of kisses and tons of cuddles to your cutie sugar pies 😘😘😘😘😘😘🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾❤️❤️❤️
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 :-)
Ok, we went for something boring this morning ...
I had to renew my passport ...
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 :-)
I wasn't sure dogs were allowed but not only they are allowed but they get loved to bits by everybody
This is her new friend Miguel, so, so sweet to watch
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 :-)
More cuddles
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 :-)
And more cuddles from her new friend David
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 :-)
You would never see a dog other than a service dog in a government office here! And the big fluffy bed blows her cover if she is trying to use her harness to pretend to be a service dog.
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.
When we got out from the passport office MAGIC happened, there were lots of steps but not narrow (as an alternative to the handicap lane that we used to get in there) so we went for it gently and she negotiated them !!!!!
I cannot tell you how exciting that was 
the first time in 5 1/2 months !!!
We met Carla who ADORES furry friends and has 5 cats of her own. She told me breakfast is quite an important part of the daily routine, there is her breakfast on the table for her plus five bowls with milk for her cats
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 :-)
And then back in the car and ready to hit the beach we met Susana, proud Mom to sweet, goofy, crazy daschunds, so we had an instant bond as my first dog was a daschund many moons ago and I know exactly what there are like 
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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