Month: July 2009

Hi everyone, we just wanted to say thank you for all the positive thoughts and prayers you sent Chaos’s way. We think it really payed off. Chaos had his chest x rays today and all was well, so he went straight into surgery and now we have a tripawd in the family.  We went and transported Chaos from our vets office to the emergency for the night to be monitored!  Boy oh boy, it didn’t matter how many post op pictures we looked at trying to prepare our self’s for when we seen him. Let me tell you it feels totally different when it’s your family member laying there with almost 75 staples and only 3 legs. Our big guy is a fighter though, he tried to stand up and it didn’t work out so well but it is was nice to see him try.

 

We are a little scared to bring home tomorrow because it looks so painful, and we don’t want anything to go wrong. But we will be glad to have him home safe and sound once he’s settled into his bed. So now we just hope his recovery goes smoothly, and the cancer does not return. Once we have him home, we will let everyone know how things are going.. Thanks again we really appreciate all the responces to help us through this rough time. Things will only get better from here on out!

Chaos was put on a new Pain killer and it seems to be helping him a lot more. He is eating again, and the old Chaos we know is peeking through. We know things are not really getting better until the surgery takes place but it is so nice to see that he is  little more comfortable.

It’s almost like he knows he is going to lose one of his legs, because he keeps trying to show us that he can use it. Chaos is in good spirits which is just what we want before surgery. ( Of course if his chest xrays come back clear)

 Hi everyone, today is day 2 of a very sad situation.  Yesturday was truly one of the worse days my fiance and I have had to deal with. As I am sure you all know where we are coming from.  We found out our beautiful 7 year old  Rottwieler Chaos was daignosed with Osteosarcoma.  Bone Cancer! It was so hard to diegest. He doesn’t deserve this, he has been such an amazing boy to us. After crying for a while, we decided to do some research on the internet. Thats when we came across Tripawds.com, what a good site to give us a little faith. We have been reading about other families expierences all day. Witch helped us come to the decision to go forward with the amputation, as long as his chest xrays come back clear.

  Let me tell you how this all started.  4 weeks ago we noticed Chaos started to limp around the house, and we knew  there was no injury to cause it.  We thought maybe he just tweaked somthing, so we watched him for a few days. In the mean while we massaged his leg hoping that would help,  after no progress we took him to our vet. She performed a couple tests on his knee  and thought that he may of particly tore one of his cruciate ligaments.  We could have delt with that since he had particly tore his acl in his right knee a few years back. WitchChaos recovered fine, but after 2 weeks he seemed to be getting worse rather than better. He was now totally lame on his left leg, and his muscles mass was decreasing rapidly. He also almost stopped eating all together.  So we took him back to our vet,  and she starts to do more test on him and with in minutes she suspects a tumor. 10 minutes after that Chaos was on the xray table, and that is when she sees the tumor and confirms that he has bone cancer in his distal femour.

 She goes over the options with us, and they included amputation of his left leg with intensive therapy to fallow or to try to keep him as comfortable as possible with pain killers untill the cancer spreads (if it hasn’t already). Then when that day comes where he just can’t take it anymore, we would put him down.  It was a hard night, and we had to decide what should be done.

   So we want to say “Thank you” to the creators of Tripawds and all the families stories on this wedsite in helpin