Images

Before Rylie was discharged from Tufts Veterinary hospital I thought I was ready for her.  We had the orthopedic beds, we had scatter rugs in trail from living room to kitchen and to the door in the front of house and out back. I had a blow up mattress in the living room so I could sleep next to her. The first night went pretty well I was hopeful and confident in the decision I had made for her.  The next 2 weeks everything I initially felt was questioned when we had a lot of issues with pain management, a seroma that was increasing, lots of bruising and swelling , not eating , yelping out and crying. This was so heartbreaking to me since all I wanted to do was help my girl and extend her life to be full and happy and pain-free.  Each day I had to force feed food down her throat. Force feed pain pills forget the holistic cancer fighting meds or immune boosting all I could get down her was pain meds and what food I could force her to eat plus the antibiotics. We had 3 trips to vet and ER Vet during the first week, with the addition of codeine the pain seemed better however this brought constipation and stomach issues where she didn’t want to eat

 

I should start with the day OSA was mentioned.  We had brought Rylie in to the vet to check on limp. This wasn’t happening long but we had previously had 2 dogs with TPLO’s so if it was a torn ACL , we wanted to get a jump on it.  She had her leg up for 1 day and then gradually over the weekend it was coming back down to a mild toe touch.. The vet didn’t feel anything in her knee that was an issue. So we went home with Rymidal and rest for 2 weeks later she was occasionally toe touching so we decided on next step was the sedated x-rays. When I picked Rylie up my vet was like great news all looks well.  No worries, Radiologist will review by she felt confident there were no issues. I was glad we took the extra measure to check and got home and let her run out in backyard. Within 2 hours my vet had called back apologizing and saying that the radiologist saw a less dense area in the bone of her rear left leg.  Less Dense what did that mean? My vet said Cancer.  I was sure she was wrong.