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Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / May 2007osteosarcomas help
Help I dont want my 6 yrs old dobie to die. should I removed the leg and decide on the chemo after that. The prices for everything on LI, NY are nuts. I guess what holding me back is the percentage that make it a year. No animal insurance. Crying everyday hurts I have a cat who had a giant cell tumor on her rear leg. It was amputated and she's still with me 6 years later and doing fine. I chose not to put her through any other treatments other than the amputation. Most dogs do wonderfully on 3 legs. As for how long she might be around it's hard to say. The one thing that is for sure the longer you wait the harder it is to get rid of so if you are thinking of doing it get the leg off ASAP. If you choose not to then the right thing to do is give her peace long before this becomes painful and she suffers. Celeste > Help > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Crying everyday hurts > Most dogs do wonderfully on 3 legs. As for how long she might be around > it's hard to say. The one thing that is for sure the longer you wait the > harder it is to get rid of .........Celeste, there is no way to get rid of osteosarcoma. The only reason they do amputation is to control the pain, not control the cancer. Survival rate is months to a year - and that's optimistic. To the OP I'm so sorry about your pup. It's a situation I've been in more than once and I know how much it hurts to consider letting your friend go - but......bone cancer sucks. It hurts. You could ask about payment plans if that's possible. Get some pain meds and if they don't do anything for your pup, let her go. Even if you had the money you might make the same decision. I honestly don't know what I'd do if bone cancer visited one of my pets. By the time it gets diagnosed there liable to be mets to the lungs. It's difficult to judge how much one is doing for the animal and how much is done for one's own sake, which is a struggle I undertake every time I'm faced with a severely ill pet. Here's one account of an osteosarcoma dog journey - scroll down to bottom to read in order: http://www.doggedblog.com/doggedblog/raven/index.html It's a personal decision and much depends on the health of the pup otherwise, and the integrity of the other legs that will carry the weight. .....hug your pup, honor your decision, cry a river buglady take out the dog before replying >Help > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Crying everyday hurts I'm sorry about your Dobe. We just lost our very awesome 14 year-old Siberian Husky to osteosarcoma. Osteosarcoma sucks big-time. The thing to remember is that osteosarcoma is an extremely painful disease. If you're not going to do chemo - and I believe that whether or not to do chemo with an animal is a very personal decision, based on numerous factors, and that either answer is OK - then you either need to amputate pretty quickly or be ready to euthanize her fairly soon because of the pain. Another danger with osteo if you don't amputate is a pathologic fracture of the bone due to its porous condition; if that happens you'd need to let the dog go, again because of pain. If you amputate and do chemo, you might buy her a year, a year and a half, two years - I've heard of some dogs that have made it 4 years. If you amputate and don't do chemo, most dogs don't live longer than 6 months before the cancer spreads to the extent that euthanasia is required. Again, I'm very sorry about your dog. Mustang Sally |
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