Good morning,

A  little update on Daphne - we decided yesterday morning to take her back to the vet, which is also a 24 hour emergency clinic. The surgeon that cared for her the day of surgery and 2 days after will be in today, Monday. They tested her bloodwork, all appeared where it should. Her red blood cell count was climbing, but to give her a boost they gave her plasma and hydrated her. Fingers crossed there is a very reasonable explanation for what is happening to her hind leg. We want her to get over this hump and back to healing as soon as possible! Will keep you posted. Thank you.

Sorry for the super delayed response! 

After one more night back in the hospital in addition to some plasma, she recovered quite well. It was in fact fluid build up as a result of sensitivity to all the catheters in her leg over the first 2 days for fluids, meds, and a blood transfusion. The surgeon added some very unnecessary, but totally out of trying to be helpful, stress on us assuming it was the blood cancer returning (hemangiosarcoma). At this point pathology results were not ready, so we were a little shaken, but it turns out to in fact be osteosarcoma. We are meeting with oncologist this week to talk about chemo.

She certainly needed a little extra push during recovery, likely because she is 12, but it all seemed to work. We are now nearly 4 weeks post-op and she's nearly back. Her nighttime anxiety is up a little, but does eventually settle down. She still has some strength to regain, but she's really adjusted well to life on 3 legs. Every day has been an improvement. We're taking her to physical therapy hoping to learn some tricks to keep Daphne feeling as young as she does now and before the tumor took over her life. 

Thank you for checking in!