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What a great picture, red suits her 
you look so happy together
Eurydice 77kg/170lb Great Dane limping end of April 2016, amputation (right front leg/osteosarcoma) 4 May 2016 6 courses of carboplatin followed by metronomic therapy, lung mets found 30 Nov 2016. 3 courses of doxorubicin, PET scan 26 Jan 2017 showed more mets so stopped chemo. Holistic route April 2017. Lung X-ray 5 May 2017 showed several tennis ball size mets, started cortisone and diuretics. Miss Cow earned her XXL silver wings 12 June 2017, 13 months and 1 week after amputation and 6 1/2 months after lung mets, she was the goofiest dawg ever and is now happily flying from cloud to cloud woof woofing away :-)
Ruby looks like a queen in her wagon. But man has she got us worried. SHes soooo whiny and running/hopping around looking at her backside. Her incision looks dreadful and we have appt on Monday but thinking we need to go today. I will try and post a photo of her incision a few days ago when we took her in the first time. Her diarrhea has slowed but not stopped so she may indeed have a bad bum that is causing all this whining and looking back. We want to get her to PT to see if it will help. I'll go post an update with changes from vet last visit day before yesterday.
Rubys Gram
Okay, I'm confused (and it doesn't take much). From your other post I thought you had taken her in today a d the vet said bring her back Mondsy to remove the tissue. Did I just dream that? No fever, right?
At the very least, if the vet has not seen this, email a photo. Does it look worse today?
Anyway, I responded .ore to the other post.
I k ow this is frustrating as heck! It has indeed happened before. Even though you nate to.out her through another surgery and packing to fix it, at least it is fixable!! I think Ruby will feel sooooo much better. The incision itself has to hurt.
Lpts of hugs!
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
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