Isa's Story

Couple of days/weeks later, here I am. I’m something of a dinosaur so forgive me my technical issues, please.

Isa is an utter sweetheart, loves everyone she meets. A lab/rottweiler mix I refer to as a lab in a rottweiler suit. Her markings are mostly rottie but she is built like a lab. Pre-amp she was 87ish pounds. Even aside from her leg, she’s lost some weight. She’s 12 or 13, I’ve never really known. We celebrate her birthday on the day I adopted her, June 7, so we’ve been together nine years now.

Diagnosed July 1 with osteosarcoma, right rear leg amputation on July 12, and first round of carboplatin on July 18. Things were going great the first week and a half, miraculously great. Reading the forums, I couldn’t believe how well she was doing. Was I doing something right? Or maybe just lucky?

Turns out it was luck and that luck explosively crashed Sunday/Monday of this week. I posted on the forums about this a little bit ago as a cry for help. But it turns out Isa’s back is pretty messed up. Why did we not do any spine x-rays pre-op? How is that possible? I’ve no doubt that if we had done those x-rays, the amputation decision would have been hugely complicated. What’s done is done and I really don’t regret the decision. Or I didn’t before this happened. That first week post-op I saw flashes of my girl from before the cancer reared it’s ugly head. Just moments but with Tripawds information, I knew there would be, could be, more.

Boy howdy, have I been naive about so many things. Learning fast now.

We go back to the vet tomorrow morning for cortisone shot(s) in her spine. He said that with the cortisone she should be running around, good as new, by next Monday (8/1).

Think good thoughts for us.

Thanks.

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