Re: [PyrNet-L] Osteosarcoma

["Donna Coffman" <dcoffman@erols.com>]

Dear Jack and Charlotte,
I am so very sorry to hear about Queenie and know how you feel. 
Fortunately, it seems like you caught it in time and hopefully she will
have a long life ahead of her.
Donna


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> From: Charlotte & Jack Perry <pyreau@erols.com>
> To: pyrnet-l@gamerz.net
> Subject: [PyrNet-L] Osteosarcoma
> Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 8:09 PM
> 
> Well, this has been a real bummer of a week for us.  Our beloved
> Queenie, 5 yr. old mother of the 6 pups born on Memorial Day and the
> sweetest Pyr that ever was, started limping on a front leg right after
> the pups were born.  We and our Vets, felt that she may have pinched a
> nerve or twisted something  during the birth.  The limp seemed to come
> and go and we wondered if it was just from lying down for long periods
> of time while nursing. As the pups got older the limp got worse. When we
> took her to the Vet they could not palpate any area of pain.  We did not
> want to medicate her or put her to sleep for x-rays while she was
> nursing the pups.  Finally, by the end of last week she was in obvious
> pain and we took her in for a series of x-rays under sedation.  The
> results were that she had osteosarcoma (bone cancer) at the end of the
> bone closest to the shoulder joint.  The good news was that there was no
> evidence that the cancer had spread to heart or lungs.  The Vets felt
> that she had a good chance of a pain-free life if we amputated her leg. 
> So, the operation was performed this past Wednesday and Queenie is now
> home and trying to learn to walk on three legs.  It is so sad.  I know
> that some would have put her down, but we just could not do that.  We
> hope that the cancer will not spread.  Does anyone know of anything we
> could give her to help with recovery?  We could use some prayers.
> Charlotte