Posted by Dinah on December 22, 2007, at 23:34:18
In reply to Here's what my Vet emailed me..., posted by texaschic on December 21, 2007, at 9:54:05
I'm sorry. I know how much it hurts. This can be a special time too, though. A time to make memories for you and to create happiness for him.
You might want to contact the hospital. Of the two dogs of mine that I can think of offhand who had cancer with a poor prognosis, I didn't do chemo with either of them. But I did do alternate experimental treatments. The last one my vet suggested an experimental treatment protocol with tamoxifen where the idea was to starve the tumor of nutrients rather than kill the cells with chemo. The first one (pancreatic cancer) I can't recall how it worked, but my vet had to get the medication from the people hospital to do the trial. Both of them had results better than would be expected with traditional chemo. Neither lived a very long time, but I appreciated the time we did have together.
Also, our local vets didn't have much of a direction to go on with my little one who's got a neurological problem right now, but the specialist in Houston was able to point out a treatment plan, and actually read the test results completely differently than the local specialty clinic. She's been diagnosed for over a year now, and hasn't gotten any worse for some time now.
I'm not trying to give you false hope. Sometimes there is nothing we can do, and it can be ridiculously expensive to do the treatments as well. It's so sad that our furry friends live such a shorter period of time than we do.
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