Hello! An update on Katy.

Its been exactly one month since Katy went through cyberknife radiosurgery. We are happy to report that she is doing well. She started her first first round of chemo (carboplatin) 2 weeks ago and is due for her second dose next week. Overall, Katy tolerated the chemo well. She had a couple of bouts of the runs,the firs one 2 days after chemo and another about 6 days later.  That cleared up quickly each time with a diet of R/D. Her appetite and energy is as normal as can be. She is always ready and happy to eat and would run at full speed if we allowed it. We still play it on the conservative side and keep her activity level on the low side. We have also started her on apocaps and K9 Immunity Plus today under the supervision of her oncologist. We also supplement her diet with fish oils. Keeping our fingers crossed as always!

Hello Everyone.

Just wanted to give  an update on Katy. Its been 2 and half weeks post amp. She was doing really well and becoming more and more like her old self .She started Palladia last week and is on Deramax on days that she is not on Palladia. She seems to be tolerating Palladia well so far as she is happy to eat and doesn't seem to have GI issues. She was weened off  tramadol about 3 days ago.

Feeling good, she may have been a little too ambitious (running down the hallway, getting excited when she sees other dogs during her car rides). We have tried to keep her activity level low but being a big girl, it was sometimes hard to hold her back as we did not want to hurt her incision area. Last night, she woke up from a sound sleep and I noticed a small blood spot on her t-shirt. She must have gotten up too quickly and caused a small tear at an surgical site. The bleeding was little so we were not too concerned as it did not look inflamed or infected. She was still moving about normally and wanting treats.

A short while later, Katy let out an excruciating pain that tore through our hearts. She was clearly in pain. we couldn't tell if it was phantom pain or if it was because of the injury at the incision site. As the night progressed, she had a harder time trying to get comfortable and would cry out loud. We put her back on Tramadol and that did not help. We placed a call to the emergency room at the hospital that she was operated on and they suggested we up the dosage on the tramadol. Still all night she would cry out in pain every so often and as the early hours came, she was having a harder time laying down even though she was feeling drowsy from the meds. She wanted to go out to relief herself and it was getting harder for her to walk. We noticed that she was getting more sensitive to the the side of the amputation too. We are keeping an eagle eye to make sure that there is no infection. There is some seroma that came back. We emailed her oncologist and she prescribed Gabapentine, Deramax and Tramadol. She only takes Paladia on Mon, Wed, Fri, so this weekend she is free from that.She finally put her head down on my lap and laid down with me at 7:30 this am. She has been resting well since and have not gotten up. She is happily eating, we are hand feeding her and making sure she has fluids by adding more water to her chicken and oatmeal porridge. If she doesn't get better by tomorrow, we will take her to the vet on Monday. 

We are curious if anyone else have had this set back experience as ours and if so, is it because of the possible injury to the surgical site or is it phantom pain .