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Great news 👍🏼 hurrah for Chance and his loving family 🍾🍸💗😘🐶
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 :-)
Nothing like GLIMMERS to brighten up the "dark side"! 🙂 Not only are yoj seeing limmers, but sounds like some sparkles too!
Isn't it the best feeling to see the appetite pick up, or to hear them become vocal and give a good WOOF!!
Thanks for taking time to update a dd give us a reason to smile!
Cheering for you Charlie! 🙂
Hugs!
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!
today is day 14 and just like you all reassured me, Chance is perking up! His stitches come out today and he will likely be cleared for going back to walks and fun. As of yesterday dinner he really made a turn. Ate everything up quickly without any coaxing. Hopping all around the living room, wagging tail, smiling!
thanks for all the words of encouragement 🙂
And now I'm smiling too! 
So pleased! Thanks for the update xxx
Ruby, Staffy, born June 2022, became a Tripawd, November 2023, adopted January 2024.
Also Angel Tripawd Meg (aka The Megastar), who died in April 2023, aged 14, after seven glorious years on three, and Angel Staffies Elsie Pie and Bille. In the pawprints of giants...
So happy to hear this!! YAAAAAAAAAY FOR CHANCEY!!!
And it still gets better!!
Hugs!
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!
STITCHES ARE OUT!
Has to wear his t-shirt for three more days and we can start taking him down off the pain meds. Yipppeeeeee!!!!!
Doing the Chanceypants Dance over here 
Way to go Chancyboy 🎉🎊🍸🎊🎉🍸
We are so, so pleased with the news 😄
Lots of hugs and cuddles flying your way 🐾🐾💕💕💕😘
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 :-)
The Chanceypants Dance
I'll expect to see the Dance at our meetup!
Karen
Tri-pug Maggie survived a 4.5 year mast cell cancer battle only to be lost to oral melanoma.
1999 to 2010
EVERYBODY DOING THE CANCEYPANTS DANCE!! CONGRATULATIONS 🙂 🙂 🙂
Yeah, we want video! 🙂
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!
Hooray! What great news! And actually, Otis loved it when he could be "naked" again.
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.
I was just curious -- does panting always mean pain/discomfort? Or could it be partially that he is having to work much harder now on the three legs? I am going on the side of discomfort as he has been panting a bunch while basically just laying around this afternoon. Have been weening him off the pain meds so I just gave him a couple tramadol.
The vet said you can just stop the pain meds all at once but that didn't feel right to me. At the two and a half week point, could he still be feeling a little discomfort from the incision area?
We continued on Tramadol into week three. On staple removal day, we eliminated the midday dose. The morning dose was next. By the end of the week, we were just giving one tram before bed (v. 3 every 8 hours). The vet basically gave us discretion to taper off.
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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