Ouch, poor Emily and poor you. Is it unusual that she had the accident or fell? Or just a blow to her (and your) confidence? I hope she is better and relatively symptom free after the chemo.

Susan

Just give her lots of extra love and hugs and massage and attention. She will feel better and so will you!

I know it is hard to see them hurt when they are already going through so much. It truely is about getting through one day at a time, tomorrow will be better.

Give Emily a pat and hug from us, Gineej & Paris

My oncologist said be careful about drastic diet changes during chemo.  Although Sunny is recommended for chemo and I want to learn more about the grain free diets  I found out they have a store here in Atlanta that specializes in organic and healthy diets for dog.  I am lucky to live in Atlanta where there are such great resources.

Food changes: Normally vets say to be careful about diet changes. but of course any dog that checks into the hospital suddenly is put on an entirely new diet. It can't be ALL that important.

Having said that, i keep expecting tazzie to react to all the goodies he has been getting, including new foods. Normally I am cautious about this. But so far so good on that front.

To Emily and her entire family,

Very sorry to here of Emily's problems. The stress that her body is undergoing is extremely great and can lead to such difficulties. For Cherry the chemotherapy was far worse than the amputation. While she never really exibited the signs of nausea, her appetite totally shut down. I could even tast the chemicals within her body as I kissed her. I had to stuff nearly every morsal of food during this two month period. Like you, if Cherry did show any desire for a food - she got it, and to a major degree that still hold today more than eight months into the recovery journey. Our pantry is filled with five types of canned food, three types of kibbles, three types of biscuits and two types of jerky strips and this morning's breakfast was Cheerios followed by soy milk. Point here is that we have had less problems with changing her diet but rather keeping up with a changing appetite.

Falling and potentially loosing blatter control will always be a great concern to us. Such accidents do occur and you are right to be concerned about them, but keep in focus the progress you have made. It can only help Emily to remain as positive around her as you can. They really are very tuned to our feelings, and as much as I hate to say it, Emily was probably picking up some of the apprehension when you were dropping her off. She will get over this setback and continue down the recovery process. Cherry just finished her eighth month of her recovery and things really started to improve with the end of the chemicals in her system.

Sending you nothing but positve thoughts.

Bob & Cherry