Tembo!  You're from Wisconsin!!!  I hope it's Nashville, WI you're moving to, though that's still quite far and so, sadly, I don't know any vets in your neck of the woods.  I've only seen people on here from Madison or Milwaukee, I think, but not everybody advertises where they're from - paws crossed that someone will have a tip for you.  I'm so very sorry you had the need to find Tripawds, but very glad you did! 

Tembo looks soooo much like my Gerry!!!  Or Gerry looks so much like Tembo - at least in that picture.  And is he a doberman or dobe mix?  Don't know if Gerry is.  He could be a Black and Tan Hound mix or something, but my Yoda (though he didn't have the traditional coloring) was definitely a doberman mix.  

Ok, but back to business, Yoda had osteosarcoma and received carboplatin, also with mild symptoms.  Yoda was diagnosed a year ago with osteosarcoma and had his amputation and chemo done through UW Madison.  I can get back to you on how much we paid, thought there could be significant difference even within our state.  Unfortunately, Yoda was on the other spectrum from Trouble as far as survival time,  and passed away in mid-October.  Like Trouble though, Yoda's side effects  to the chemo were mild and easily taken care of by medication (Cerenia for nausea, usually).  And our final four months together were much better quality than I would have imagined and totally worth the amputation.  I feel very confident in saying Yoda would have agreed with me on that, if he could have answered for himself.  Even after the amputation and while he was undergoing chemo, there were lots of romps at the dog parks, tennis ball playing and he even caught a rabbit in the yard on his three legs!  Yoda didn't finish all his chemo treatments before getting lung mets, but he had great quality time even after those were found.  And I know I would have blamed myself for not doing chemo, if I hadn't tried it for Yoda - but that's a very personal thing.  You'll do the best possible for Tembo, we know.  All routes have been taken by pawrents around here - chemo, holistic treatments, nothing but love, etc. 

Best wishes for the move and finding the perfect vet.  Bummer about the extra stressful timing. 

I'll rooting for Tembo to blow past Yoda's survival time in great shape.  Hang in there and I hope you'll keep us posted on how Tembo does!

(Gerry is a tripawd too by the way, but due to injury)

GerrysMom said:

Tembo!  You're from Wisconsin!!!  I hope it's Nashville, WI you're moving to

I had no idea there was a Nashville, WI … I had to google that. 

I'm sorry you had to join our little club, but you will find tons of great advice and support here.  I'm assuming Tembo has bone cancer?  We are dealing with a different form of cancer (Histiocytic Sarcoma), so we had a different kind of chemo (CCNU/Lomustine), & I cannot help you out with your chemo question on price.  Sorry.

Is there perhaps a Vet School in Nashville where you could do chemo treatments?  Did you go to UW for amputation?  Maybe they would be able to recommend someone? 

I hope your move goes well (talk about extra stress when you don't need it!).  Sorry you are leaving Madison … Gerry throws great Pawties (or so I hear, since we didn't make the Pawty).

Keep us updated on how Tembo is doing!  Hope all goes smoothly for him!!