ShelsGoingToDisney
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2005
Your feelings are so similar to what I went through with the back and forth. I will say looking back now once Katy was about a month post-op and seemingly back to her normal self I realized just how much pain she had been in prior to the surgery. She has a very high pain tolerance (we learned that through all the knee issues) but in those couple months before the amp she had really slowed down and was much more reserved. It shows just how much pain she was in with the shoulder tumor. Her spirits are much brighter without that leg/pain.
It did happen so fast once we got the diagnosis and it was such a roller coaster for us because at first, they thought she had hemangiosarcoma which is far less treatable so I was going through all the research etc. When we got the diagnosis of osteosarcoma is was actually kind of a relief because we at least had some options to work with. You need to just kind of take it one step at a time. That's what we do. Right now we're focused on the after-chemo time even though there is that underlying dread of the January scan. I try to keep that buried.
I should clarify that the leg/shoulder with the osteosarcoma was her front left leg. Her ACL/Cruciate surgeries were in both her back legs so the concern was to be down to literally one good leg. Ortho vet thought she could handle it and she has. I have heard though that the location of an ACL/cruciate repair can often be the spot where osteo starts, but that wasn't the case with us.
It did happen so fast once we got the diagnosis and it was such a roller coaster for us because at first, they thought she had hemangiosarcoma which is far less treatable so I was going through all the research etc. When we got the diagnosis of osteosarcoma is was actually kind of a relief because we at least had some options to work with. You need to just kind of take it one step at a time. That's what we do. Right now we're focused on the after-chemo time even though there is that underlying dread of the January scan. I try to keep that buried.
I should clarify that the leg/shoulder with the osteosarcoma was her front left leg. Her ACL/Cruciate surgeries were in both her back legs so the concern was to be down to literally one good leg. Ortho vet thought she could handle it and she has. I have heard though that the location of an ACL/cruciate repair can often be the spot where osteo starts, but that wasn't the case with us.