Hi Everyone,

This website has been hugely helpful and thanks so much for providing such great resources!  Our four-year-old Great Dane, Quack (yup that's his name) was diagnosed with osteosarcoma February 16th.  The next couple weeks were a blur of second opinions and x-rays and the sadness of reading how aggressive osteosarcoma can be.  After a lot of researching we explored a couple immunotherapy vaccine options and Quack qualified for a clinical trial at Cornell.  He had his amputation surgery March 8th, and had his first round of carboplatin 2 days ago.  So far he's been okay.  He bounced right back from the surgery.  He was really tired the first day after chemo.  He had spent the whole previous day at Cornell getting tests and the chemo which meant he didn't get to do what he usually does which is nap, nap and take another nap. His appetite has been okay.  Today he was asking to go for a walk so we took a short walk with his older "brother" our newfie Bear.  We live on a farm so we just went out in the pasture and both dogs sniffed around and got muddy.   So I'm kind of waiting of the chemo shoe to drop.   Cornell gave us metronidazole  in case he develops diarrhea and Cerenia in case he develops nausea but we have not needed either yet.  We are supposed to start him on antibiotics this Monday.  He goes for blood work this week and the next, then if his white cell count is not too low, chemo again in 3 weeks.  Folks who have done carboplatin, when did you run into problems?  Also how active should I let him be?  His life style tends to be nap nap nap run around like a maniac and then nap.  How restrictive should I be about his running around?  Thanks for any suggestions!