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He definitely has a fighter spirit in him. Follow his lead and stay strong, whatever happens you know that you both have it in you to beat the odds.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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Here is my beautiful boy last year, we are building a house at the moment so he is watching things from our caravan
awww! what a good boy supervising like that.
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Just catching up! WOW! Jack is quite amazing!
You have already gotten great advice from everyone! We get the emotions involved like no one else can...and the buckets of non stop tears!! We also understand and know, as a result of our own first hand experience, how Jack will continue to live life ro the fullest without the pain!
I do have one thing to add though after seeing Jack's picture...I'M IN LOVE!!!! JACK IS ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!!!
Sending lots of hugs!
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle 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!
I've started his blog now so can work through all this day by day, I hope
and without a doubt he is my beautiful boy who has done quite a lot in his short life
We have a website too http://www.toll.....lers.co.uk which is a bit out of date but you can see what he has been doing (and the others too)
jackdog said
I've started his blog now...
Pawesome! Love the pics. 
FYI: Sharing the link will help others find Jacks blog.
Consider editing your Forums Profile and adding the links to your signature that will appear beneath all your posts.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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Thank you admin - I will try to do that
Had a call from the vet - the biopsies are inconclusive as to what is wrong 🙁
The lab is suggesting further samples which my vet is not happy about as she took 3 and feels the bone might not support more. They are good though and are talking to other specialists and trying to find out what we need to do. Fingers crossed that the lab can be pushed into using what they have
Oh darn that's a tough situation. I would want to know if there's another pathologist at a different lab who can give you a second opinion. Also, I'd want to know if the leg will need to be removed anyways, no matter what the final report is. Oftentimes the leg is beyond repair. If so, there's really no point in doing another biopsy. I'm not a vet, so take it for what it's worth, but anytime a bone biopsy is recommended that's a good question to ask.
So sorry you are going through this but happy to hear you have a great doc looking out for you guys.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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Yeah, this is the "hurry yp and wait" part that has happened to so many of us on this crazzzzy journey.
Ditto everything Jerry said. It seems like the end result will be amputation anyway. I know that sounds scary. Its just that we've seen many, many times when a dog was put through surgeries to "repair" a leg...and then another surgery because the first one didn't work...only to end up amputating anyway!
We all understand the fear of amputation and major surgery, All surgere have risks. In fact, quite often doing biopsies have their own risk of I fection and are pretty painful. Clearly your vet is doing everything possible to avoid another biopsy.
We're keeping all paws crossed for a good outcome...whatever that may be. We are here for you...and with you.
Hugs and extra treats to Jack...a d Pepper, Storm, Finn and Solo!
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle 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!
Murphy's biopsy was inconclusive, too. But when we did his follow-up x-rays, we could see that the tumor was really eating away at the bone an it was just a matter of time before he had a fracture. That's when we went ahead with surgery.
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
Thank you guys
Its the inconclusive diagnosis that is annoying - we don't know what we are dealing with, maybe its just a very nasty infection that is eating his bone away - in that case happy dance as he will live forever although with only three legs, the vet has said that he isn't a candidate for limb sparing surgery 🙁
You wouldn't know there was anything wrong with this boy apart from the scarily naked leg and stitches, he was running round the paddock today as if he hadn't got a care in the world except for a slightly sore leg.
Vets tomorrow to take the stitches out and another chat, he is booked for a CT scan on Monday at a referral centre we still don't have a definitive answer from the biopsies, sadly.
jackdog said
You wouldn't know there was anything wrong with this boy apart from the scarily naked leg and stitches, he was running round the paddock today as if he hadn't got a care in the world except for a slightly sore leg.Vets tomorrow to take the stitches out and another chat, he is booked for a CT scan on Monday at a referral centre we still don't have a definitive answer from the biopsies, sadly.
Hi Jackdog,
I am going through something very similar! They did a biopsy on August 4th, and the results were inconclusive. It showed the bone was decaying, but there was no cancer in the biopsy. But the needle aspirate showed cancerous cells. 
It is a roller coaster, thinking you'll get answers and then not getting them. For Murphy, I got a second opinion, and the vet sent out the sample to other pathologists and an oncologist, all of whom were not able to come to a conclusion. They recommended, and we decided to go ahead with amputation and then do a more detailed biopsy to hopefully get the final answer.
I hope you get your answers soon, too!
Murphy, became a tripawd on August 17, 2015. Went to the rainbow bridge on July 5, 2016.
Hi murphythedingo
We think that it will be an amputation next week unless the scan tells us otherwise, its the not knowing that is so bad
Hope this works
Awww....such a great video of Handsome Jack!
You can see that he does have a sore leg though.
Ghis "inbetween" time...the not knowing...the indecision...ugh! It just plain stinks! Oddly enough though, once you are committed to a definte treatment...ehatever that may be...you will find some relief.
Hang on! We're right here with you!
Hugs to all!
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle 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!
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