Thanks everyone.  

@Jessica - Ophelia is 5 months post diagnostic and 4 1/2 months post amputation.  I’m going to look for your thread and see if i can offer some advice and/or support.  As Jerry said, it’s very sweet of you to do that yourself when you are going through what you are right now.  

@Jerry - definitely excited that we get to use the new PET-CT Scan at CSU.  I think that it will probably be sometime in January.  I want to time it so that it takes the place of her next check up for metastasis since she just got cleared by x-rays yesterday.  I am worried about this rear left leg issue though. There is a small chance that it could be cancer metastasis itself. I would have insisted on x-rays of her leg had i thought about that yesterday. The oncologist didn’t seem too concerned about that possibility though.  I’m curious if you’ve seen other Tripawds here with injuries to one of their remaining legs.  It just seems like it would be extremely concerning if she has an injury that won’t heal with a couple of weeks of rest.  Sort of like an elderly person who breaks their hip… it is usually downhill from there.  That is what I’m worried about right now.  

Thank you Sally.  That is encouraging to hear.  And yes, she gets her morning massages almost every day.  To the point that she now expects them when she first wakes up.  She’s hilarious.  

Thanks everyone.  As always the support here is wonderful. 

update.  Ophelia had her Spryng procedure this morning.  She did well and has been sleeping off the sedation drugs most of the day.  

i asked the doctor to do x-rays of her remaining forelimb while she was sedated to see if she had any arthritis in those joints.  I’m glad that i did because he told me that she has a moderate level of it in her carpal.  We did a Spryng injection into those joints as well as the left hind hip.  

This pain management vet has been great.  He is confident that it’s the arthritis causing Ophelia the trouble that she’s been having over the past 3-4 weeks and that the Spryng will help.  He thinks that more will need to be done in terms of supplements and some better pain management .  Part of the problem is that i am not suppose to give her carprofen on the same days that she get Palladia (the maintenance chemo). So she get carprofen and Palladia on alternating days.  He and the oncologist are going to connect and talk about this next week. 

She has an appointment scheduled at the CSU vet clinic December 11.  We have to do a consult before they will schedule her for a PET-CT scan.   This is really annoying to me because it makes it where there is such a long wait.  The oncologist had suggested that we have one done in January but due to the recent pain issues i was wanting to do it sooner. 

i sort of got myself worried by reading another thread “amputation with complications several months later”. That poster and Whitney talked about a sudden decline in their dogs in terms of pain and mobility that turned out to be what they believe to be metastasis on the spine.  I posted there because I’m wondering if my description of what has been going on with Ophelia is similar to what happened with their pups. I don’t want to put Ophelia through any unnecessary pain of that is what i am dealing with.  Any insights or opinions on this are appreciated.  

Here is a video from this afternoon (not very exciting lol) and also a couple from a few weeks ago. The latter show why i am determined to do everything that i can to extend Ophelia’s life as long as she is happy.  She has always just loved interactions with kids like this. 🙂