I'm sorry we've been MIA for a couple days now! We have been reading your replies and appreciate them so much 🙂 We've also been doing some of the required reading in our down time... which hasn't been much! Two bedrooms are ready for trim and then our son will move down to the basement! Our vanity for the bathroom won't be in until the 4th of January, but we have a sink to put in there for the time being (I know we'll need one down there). 

I'm so worried Remi's bone is going to break before Tuesday 🙁 he's limping so badly and it looks like it hurts so much! But that goofball STILL insists on standing up and getting all excited any time he sees us come up from the basement or get home from yet another hardware store run! LOL I really do think he understands something is happening for him. Should we wrap it or brace it somehow? We keep telling him to sit or lay down because we are worried it's just gonna snap... then he gets those sad eyes like we don't want him to be by us... and then I feel bad so I sit down and rub his belly and then he gets so excited and he has all this energy and wants to follow me. Seriously, this leg just needs to come off already because I really don't think it's going to slow him down for too long. 

Another worry of mine is the LARGE lipoma he has on his chest kind of up where the leg will be amputated. We'll ask the vet about it of course, but I wonder if it will be bothersome when he has the cone or when we have a harness on him. 

I'll include a couple pictures of his leg where the cancer is and the large lipoma on his chest and if you have any advice about bracing or harnessing please let me hear it 🙂

Thank you all again so very much!!!

Hi everyone 🙂 We don't have an actual oncology vet in North Dakota, but there is one over by Fargo that is more versed in oncology. We had Remi's records sent there and today they called and said they weren't able to see any metastasis in the x-rays that were taken yesterday but that it could be because when you look at someone else's x-rays you aren't able to manipulate the images with lighting and zooming like you could if you had taken them on your own machine (or something like that). So this is very promising! Unfortunately with the holiday though we aren't able to get in to see them until next Wednesday the 30th. I honestly don't know if Remi's leg will last that long, but we are keeping him very calm and I've put a wrist brace on his leg (haha, I know I'm weird). I originally ordered a brace made for a dog's leg, but the cancer lump on his bone is so big his leg won't fit in the brace 🙁 When we were working in the basement I found an old wrist brace and immediately thought we could try that on him. He doesn't like walking with it on, but at least it keeps that joint stable. Actually, when he goes outside, he BARELY uses that leg because the brace is on it, so it's a double win. He seems to do very well not using that leg though! 

I'm really confused why our vet said it had metastasized. Maybe he saw something the other vet isn't seeing. IDK. I also wonder if it has to do with the fact that he's always dealt with farmers and their animals where the mentality is usually more of "oh there's cancer? Time to put them to sleep." I wonder if he was saying this so we'd do what he thinks we should do rather than what we want to do. I'm probably way off base thinking that though. 

Right now, Remi is on Rimadyl 100 mg twice per day and Gabapentin 900 mg twice a day. He seems very stoned from it.... not moving much and seems super tired. I also got some CBD oil from our local health foods store that we are giving him too. 

Now I'm wondering.... what are your guys' thoughts are on Fenbendazole? I've read some things that this could be helpful in slowing the progression as well. 

Thanks again for all of your help! You guys really are amazing!