AMEN, Jerry!  When in doubt check it out.  Better to do it than to feel sorry later.  Good luck and hope Radar's is doing well after surgery.

My name is Robin and I have 4 beautiful greyhounds.

Polli, muy 9.5 year old brood mom had a limp exactly one year ago. It lasted 6 weeks. In that time, I had brought her in for x-rays under a general and nothing appeared. As quickly as it showed up, it disappeared.

Exactly one year later, same leg started up again and I did not panic this time. I figured I would bring her in in a few weeks if it wasn't any better since we have a history with this leg. GOD had other plans. Polli tripped up the steps on Wed. Could not put her foot down so we brought her right in. There was a hairline fracture. Vet was concerned that that would happen from tripping so they kept her overnight, did major x-rays yesterday. We did not need to do a bone biopsy as they knew right away, she had a tumor and was in a lot of pain that morphine was not helping. They amputated. I am blindsided by this.

Today they started her on her 1st dose of chemo. She was up and about and vet said there was very little oozing. I had a tech stay overnight with her so that the pain meds could be administered and if she had to "make" she could be comfortable.

If things go as they are going now, she will be home tomorrow. GOD Willing.

I want to order the harness today but I don;t know if I should go with a small or medium. I have her girth as 28 BUT that she has put on 10 pounds since those measurements have been taken. I am sure she will lose some weight. What do you think? Small or medium?

Thanks, Robin

thank you for getting back to me on this. I am in overwhelm right now.

I pray that she will be OK and one of those pups that  kicks A** of these NASTY cells in her beautiful body.

thank you, I just ordered her a red medium from this site. Polli prefers pink, but the red will be fine!

I had the vet tech stay tonight as well. I can't stand the thought of her being alone. She came from a farm where she was never, ever alone to me where she lives with 3 other greyhounds, (one of those gh is her youngest puppy!) and 3 kitties, plus my Dh. She has never been alone.

I am praying that she be well enough to come home tomorrow.

I will update. Please pray for my Polli.

Hi fellow pawrents!  I am new and have been taking in this site for this past week.  I have to say that I find everyone to be so supportive and informative!    So, this is my first post and I first want to say that I am praying for Polli to come home tomorrow to her loving mom.  I hope she's feeling incredibly relieved from those nasty cells and back in your loving arms where she belongs. 

Those nasty cells have made themselves at home and violated my own baby's leg.  I found out the devastating news this past Monday.  This has just been the worst week of my life.  I received a phone call at work from the vet giving me the results of the x-rays...my beautiful 12 year old yellow lab Jake has osteosarcoma in his back left femur.  He had been limping for about a month but I thought that it was related to the 3 ACL surgeries he has had or arthritis.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think bone cancer.  I felt like it was so unfair for such a horrible and evil disease to be in my baby's innocent body.  I wanted to just rip it out myself.  After a day of feeling horribly grief stricken and shocked, I decided to check out osteosarcoma on the internet and thankfully stumbled upon this great support site.  I cried my eyeballs out so many evenings when I read some of the touching stories on here!  My heart aches and sings at the same time for all of the pawrents who are going through (or have already gone through) this fight with their wonderful furry angels. 

Jake will be spending his last weekend on all fours.  He will be an official member of the Tripawd club on Tuesday.  I feel like I am walking around like half a person these days but I know I have to be strong and positive for Jake's sake.  It certainly helps to have this site as a support!   I also really loved Doug and the B Brothers' website on fear, guilt and hope.  His words really resonated with me.  I find myself searching for peace during this horribly difficult time.  Doug offers a lot of wonderful coping strategies.   

Thank you so very much for your kind words and friendly welcome.  Lalla looks so content at the beach.  Jake loves the beach too... especially chasing balls and frisbees in the surf.  I was just reading about wonderful Jerry and then crying my eyeballs out because I just realized that he passed away.  Oh how my heart aches for Jerry's family right now.  I watched the videos of him and just absolutely fell in love with him.  Jerry will always be an incredibly inspiring hero to all of us.  And to his family - thank you so very much for sharing Jerry with us.  His adorable fuzzy face will always be engrained in my memory and will certainly give me strength to stay positive during these precious and challenging times ahead.         

I'll bet Jake will be happy to get back to the beach; once he's a bit more stable and after his stitches are removed (and provided the vet gives you a green light) do try to take him there, because those old routines are so helpful to recovery (dogs thrive on routines); Lalla spent practically every day of her life on the beach, and I owe so much to her having tenaciously carrying on for nearly two years post surgery to the fact that she had her surf n' turf routine.