When a young dude such as myself rolls up in Oak-town, you know I gotz ta look good. Otherwise, you know, I just am gonna stay at home. I just got a nice paint job on my scraper. I went for a "reeces pieces" theme. I think it turned out great!
I have very sad news. Doug has osteosarcoma. It's a very aggressive form of bone cancer in dogs and literally has swollen his knee from nothing to huge in less than 2 weeks. He apparently has a fracture above the knee and is a ton of pain. To get rid of the pain, we're having his leg removed tomorrow. And then we'll be lucky if he lives another 4-6 months.
Ethan had a couple of huge cries today. I shed a few tears, which is extremely difficult for me, as I hardly ever cry. We gave Doug a bunch of roast chicken and skin tonight, which I think makes him feel pretty good. He has a fentanyl patch on his non-injured leg and has been given the NSAID Rimadyl. One can only hope these pain meds kick in tonight and keep on going through his surgery and recovery.
He had a series of x-rays today, including chest x-rays that did not yet show any metastasized tumors. This doesn't mean it hasn't metastasized; it just means they're not detectable yet (except through lots of bloodwork, which we're not going to do).
I just want Doug to have as little pain as possible for as long as he lives.
Our beloved dog Doug, who is now around 9 years old (we think), has a torn ACL in his right rear leg. It's awful. His confidence is shot, his morale is low, and he's in pain. We took him to the vet, who immediately referred him for surgery. I definitely don't think I know more than a vet does, but I'm all for other options than surgery for non-life-threatening injuries.
So, I did some research and found a Yahoo! group that discusses Conservative Management. I discovered a company (one of many) that makes prosthetics and orthoses for animals. So we've decided to have a stifle brace made for him from OrthoPets, in the hope that he can avoid surgery and start having the confidence to walk on his bad leg before he tears the ACL in the other leg.
Tonight we made a cast/mold of his leg and Brian will send it off to OrthoPets tomorrow. Hopefully, within a week we'll have his new brace. I was told that they usually start walking on it within 30 minutes of putting on the brace. I'm crossing my fingers.
You know how I roll... everywhere I go, I do it wit style. That's why I got to roll on my sweetride. You see, I had it all painted up in red kandy color, and got chrome all over tha joint. When I'm on my sweetride, I'm lookin fine.
Yes my peeplz, even here in my urban environment, tha homies rock it out for Halloween. I had a sweet costume, and I coordinated it with one of my krew. I gotz me some nize treats. I even only had to bust out one or two tricks on peeps who didn't come up with tha goodz!
As you may know, I'm an urban-dweller. Oak-town is one of the most urban environments a young dude can reside in. Still, a dude such as myself needs to get into tha country once in awhile. Luckily, there iz like heck-of redwood forest in my hood. They even gotz a sweet ride for tha peeplz all up in that forest's bidness. I likes me all kinds of transport - scraper bikes, sweet lowriders wit hydraulics, hooptie ridez, Escalades... you get tha idea. Of all them things, my all-time favorite is when I roll up on a smoove choo-choo. Awwww yeah!
Fun!
