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Lexie is a couple weeks into her journey as a cancer warrior. She's been on Cytoxan oral chemo for a week (no major side effects; just a bit of an upset tummy for one day) with another week or so to go. She's also done two short-course consecutive palliative radiation treatments; three more beginning Monday.
The tumor on her leg had gotten much worse, so she's completely bandaged. She was a little vocal/whiny the first two days during her radiation treatment (they also removed tissue for the full biopsy on treatment day one), but she's doing much better now.
This morning when I let Lexie and her brother Milo out in the back yard, Milo spotted a squirrel in the corner of the yard and ran after it...and Lexie ran after Milo and the squirrel! She also attempted to dance around when we opened a new can of chicken; so good to see her like that!
*Sorry, had to run out...pics to come.
Deb and Angel Lexie* Diagnosed at age 13. Tried radiation first; wish we had amputated upon diagnosis (even with lung mets). Joined Club Tripawd April 2014 & Lexie loved life on 3 legs! Advice: Start physical therapy as soon as your vet clears it, especially hydrotherapy if available :-) See Lexie pics here.
Lexie is definitely being "more dog" - good for her.
Glad to hear she is tolerating chemo well. I hope her leg heals up a bit so she can get rid of the bandage.
Hugs
Linda and Tucker
Not having good luck with photos tonight...
Deb and Angel Lexie* Diagnosed at age 13. Tried radiation first; wish we had amputated upon diagnosis (even with lung mets). Joined Club Tripawd April 2014 & Lexie loved life on 3 legs! Advice: Start physical therapy as soon as your vet clears it, especially hydrotherapy if available :-) See Lexie pics here.
Deb did you see this post about adding images to your forum topic? What's going on when you try?
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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Hmmm... I did look at that thread, Jerry, and followed instructions, but not sure what's happening. I do social media for a living so usually I can figure my way through these things.
Wouldn't work from Pinterest or Flickr urls; tried embedding the HTML, too. Maybe a weird API issue?
Deb and Angel Lexie* Diagnosed at age 13. Tried radiation first; wish we had amputated upon diagnosis (even with lung mets). Joined Club Tripawd April 2014 & Lexie loved life on 3 legs! Advice: Start physical therapy as soon as your vet clears it, especially hydrotherapy if available :-) See Lexie pics here.
Not quite as fun as seeing embedded images, but here are links to Lexie's photo sites
Don't need to be a member of the sites to view, btw...
Lexie and Milo photos on Flickr
Mostly Lexie photos on Pinterest
The one of her on the dock was from about 6 months ago. I'll need to add a Pinterest board for kicking cancer's butt (we hope!) photos.
Deb and Angel Lexie* Diagnosed at age 13. Tried radiation first; wish we had amputated upon diagnosis (even with lung mets). Joined Club Tripawd April 2014 & Lexie loved life on 3 legs! Advice: Start physical therapy as soon as your vet clears it, especially hydrotherapy if available :-) See Lexie pics here.
Lexie you are gorgeous!!
I hadn't been able to get any photos to upload from social media either, so I just upload them to my blog and then share.
Mom to Tripawd Angels Jake (2001-2014) and Rosco (2012-2015) and Tripawd Tanner. “Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it”
Oooh what do you do for social media? Neat!
Elizabeth is doing it the easiest way, by pasting the photo URLs from her blog.
But I was just able to paste a photo URL from Pinterest and I know you can do it from Photobucket, Facebook, etc. like this:
- Open the photo
- Right click "copy image URL"
- Return to Forums
- Click on the "tree" icon in your forum post editing toolbar
- Paste the URL into the pop-up box
- The photo should then appaer
I'm wondering if you're trying to add images from a mobile device? If so, that's why you're having issues. When viewing photos on a mobile or tablet, the forum post text/image editing options don't appear, you can only paste the URL link into the forum post on a line by itself, and only the link will appear. We're working on installing a new mobile compatible version for the Forums but until then that's the way to past image URLs from a mobile.
Hope that helps.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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Sorry I haven't done a good job of keeping Lexie's updates together (will get around to a blog one of these days).
Here are a couple of related threads:
Latest: Post-radiation and oral chemo update; reconsidering amputation
Earlier: Wound care for leg tumor
And just in the FWIW category, Yunnan Baiyo is worth asking your vet about if you're dealing with a tumor (not all vets have heard about it). Can be used orally on a regular basis, and even topically.
Deb and Angel Lexie* Diagnosed at age 13. Tried radiation first; wish we had amputated upon diagnosis (even with lung mets). Joined Club Tripawd April 2014 & Lexie loved life on 3 legs! Advice: Start physical therapy as soon as your vet clears it, especially hydrotherapy if available :-) See Lexie pics here.
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