hello everyone ...i have a 10 yr old GSD named DODGER who had a lump on his left hind leg on the bottom part  for 4 yeARS...which went on

growing very slowing and one fine day it bursted  n the trouble began... he was sent in for a surgery to remove the remainders... surgery 

went  well but the vet said tht thr were lot of tendrils wrapped around which she tried to remove as much but she was not sure whether she

could remove all... the wound started healin well... n within 3 weeks it was almost healed .. only a dot remained n then i realized sumthin

started popping ..n i waited but in two days time it became reasonably big... i rushed him to vet again  again n the vet saw n said it looks like a tumor

..meanwhile the biopsy reports came which declared it ws hemangiopericytoma.. i was sent to a senior vet who deals with cancer. he immd did

cryosurgery on it...freezingthe wound.. but after 4 days it grew more aggressively...afte tht another cryo n then more faster growth... at

every bandage change i cud see the  tumor was bigger...dodge's pain was growing day by day...he had started limping... n then thr was lot of

water retention in his paw ...finally the vet decided to amputate ...but on the surgery day he had some other plans... he said  dodge being

a GSD would   have weak hip bones.so we shuld conside getting prostethic done... so he guided us to contact orthopets ... he said find out

how much leg has to be chopped/retaind in order to get a prsthetic... the weekend had begun...we emailed to orthopets...n they replied after

3 days cos of time diff... dodge was suffering... his pain was growing.. his leg started to stink as it ws rotting..i sent pictures of his leg to orthopets n after looking at them

they  said they vl require hock n melioli(bones) to fit the prosthetic... but then they said its a borderline case. the tumor may come back.. his tumor is quite close to

the hock. he may not have clean margins. we told this to our vet. he said he vl try his best n pull clean skin n vl cover the hock. but we

were worried as most of the vets had suggested full amputation ..then he scheduled the surgery after a week... ooops ...why this delay? he

was travelling. that one week was hell for dodge n us. he was under tremendous pain. rushed him to another vet n he put him on fentayl

patches which kicked in after 12 hrs.

Finally the  amputation  day   -20th june.. he did the surgery n did a clean job.. We got him back in the evening..lots of whinin at

night... the days started passing by... all were full of pain. he didnt look happy.. then 5th day i saw water retention in his scortum.

rushed him to vet(diffrent dr) ..he chkd n said tht since dodge is nt neutered so he has lot of space in d scortum n cos of gravity water

has collected thr.  we were  sent back home n asked to monitor.. but it grew more... i was reading tripawds for 2 months but somehow cudnt manage

to register n post... finally that day i registered n chatted with jim n sent pic too.... he asked me to go to vet n get it drained.
i went in the  next day n asked if it can be drained. he said it vl b difficult and should be done under ultrasound guidane which was

available only once a week. he put him on diuretics... it started wrking . swelling has come down a bit. it is very slow n cos of the

weight it keeps pulling the skin so a part of the  insicion is not healing well...

while all this was going on , another problem came up. dodge   got a new hard lump on his face n its growing very fast. its been 7 days

since i noticed...it has become the size of table tennis ball... and for the last 4 days he has been coughing n gagging... today he is coughing more...Today we took him to vet again n he suspects hemangiopericytoma again..needle aspiration cannot be done cos its very hard..he has been scheduled for ultrasound and xray on tuesday..vet says how many more sugeries vl you make him undergo... (btw he has a history of lumps, one was on tail(removed), one was underhis eye(removed), one inside ear canal(removed)..  . this one is very firm n is attached to the tissues inside.. vet says even if we remove it vl grow back... he says now lets give him palliative cure n jus make his as comfortable as possible...

i love my dodge n i dont knw how to go about it... have we lost it?? pls share ur thoughts n suggestions ... i m not good at writing... but tried to put as much as i can.. sorry, about typos n errors ...n thanks for reading