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Dog non-update/Ruth update: Besides everything else in the world, this week has been a journey for our hearts that love our little dog. From the devastation Tuesday's "it's cancer"/if we're lucky we can just take the leg off To Wednesday's "ok, it doesn't seem to have spread."Permalink On twitter.com
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I did a lot of reading about tripods/tripawds, saw a lot of cute videos, heard from others who'd been on this journey, that's all been really helpful. Thursday, we started to feel really hopeful about his three-legged future. But we still have to get there.Permalink On twitter.com
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So at 2 in the morning I was up crying about how he's so very very small and the surgery is so very very much. As I shared in the first posts, his heart is good, bloodwork is good, everything points to him being overall a very well dog. But he's so very small.Permalink On twitter.com
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Bless him, he has no idea this is coming. But now our brains have the space for anxiety about the sedation, about the surgery, about his initial responses. The next week or so is gonna be hard. He just dashed to get his morning carrot, hurty leg and all, so that's something <3On twitter.com
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*gestures* he's just so smallPermalink On twitter.com
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He had a good walk and enjoyed the morning sun with his bat-like ears up. Now he's flopped on his bed in my work from home office. Enjoying all this supervised time because it means he doesn't have to wear the doughnut (because of his biopsy stitches)Permalink On twitter.com
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brain: why do I feel like this other part of brain: well, Ruth, you've been crying??! everything I know says he has a good chance of a good surgery, but it's still a major surgery with all the risks they have and he's still my little heart.Permalink On twitter.com
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This is my last day of working before surgery because I'd planned to have all next week off for our anniversary.Permalink On twitter.com
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There's some kind of impulse like -- we should do something for Sterling, something before shit gets really really hard. But it's not like that. And shit is already really hard for him because he's limpy and has to take several pain meds not to be in more pain.Permalink On twitter.com
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We do have some extra snacks although we're trying to make sure he eats a lot of regular kibble. In theory, this was gonna be anniversary vacation, so part of what I need to do is set up with a fun sewing project and he'll help in his favorite way -- by napping nearby.Permalink On twitter.com
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He's a dog, Ruth, he has no idea that something scary is about to happen and he won't until Weds morning.Permalink On twitter.com
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He's been in and out of the back yard for sun and is now down in the basement with me having a good snug in his cave bed.Permalink On twitter.com
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Unfortunately I think his stitches are really starting to itch, so the donut had to go back on because he started fussing with them. We'd been able to supervise him and he wasn't bothering them at all so he got to spend a lot of time with it off.Permalink On twitter.com
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(stitches are from the biopsy) I’s a little harder for him to nap in some positions, so we help outPermalink On twitter.com
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managing a dog with a cone/donut is... the worst. We have been trying to give him breaks so he can conduct hygienic needs but he also wants skritchesPermalink On twitter.com
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FIRST THING THIS MORNING -- MADE HIM A SHIRT. I do need to shorten the length. The cuffs are meant to make it a littler harder for him to get at his biopsy (which is below the shoulder seam... though seams also on the outside for less irritation!)Permalink On twitter.com
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in 2 days I'll figure out what to do about the right sleeve, but I would expect he'd have bandages first anyway.Permalink On twitter.com
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let him out in the yard in his donut, trimmed an inch of the bottom for better dongle access and sloped it up to 1.5 off the back so it doesn't come ALL the way to the tail. I think we're set for now.Permalink On twitter.com
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The long sleeves make it look like he's got a pajama shirt on! It's a little hiked up because he's been napping.Permalink On twitter.com
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Vet called to confirm appointment. Honestly that was a relief — I was a tiny bit afraid something would come up to complicate it. We have reconciled ourselves to it as a thing that will help his painful limp/stumbles.Permalink On twitter.com
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she says it's a fairly non-aggressive sarcoma, the kind of thing that has very good survival rates if removed like we're doing with this. 900 days average sounds ...short. But he's 14 so average 900 more days would be like his lifetime.Permalink On twitter.com
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to be recursive sometimes I'm like "he's being a brave little boy" but actually he's just being his usual naive little dumbass self and that's perfect -- he has no idea about tomorrow. @ruthbrarian/1543232920294510593Permalink On twitter.com
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So we dropped him off at the animal hospital at 8 for surgery. He was a bit grumpy because he a) dislikes the donut, b) didn't get his morning carrot. But he was hydrated and exercised.Permalink On twitter.com
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This is probably the hardest part of his day because he's not yet under (they're great at communication and will call us) and so he's just hanging out in one of their crates being sad and lonely and having to wear his donut.Permalink On twitter.com
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still waiting to hear that he's going in for the surgery--they have a queue of animals on surgery day and we don't know where he is in it. They're really good about calling with updates though--like when he's going in, what's been done afterward, when he's starting to wake, etcPermalink On twitter.com
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(our previous experience has only been with teeth cleaning/pulling and biopsy but they were very communicative)Permalink On twitter.com
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just got the call that he's going back for surgery now -- the vet is generally positive though he'll be getting painkillers to get through a few hard days up front. I made him a one-armed t-shirt that matches a jumpsuit I just made myself.Permalink On twitter.com
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Linking up these 2 threads for folks who are following that for updates @ruthbrarian/1544737998960467969Permalink On twitter.com
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