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We have the unfortunately choice of "What do we do?"
Last week one of my 5 year old pups was diagnosed with lymphoma. Tomorrow we have an appointment at the Animal cancer centre at the vet university. We have been through lymphoma before, but that pup was much older and in bad shape, I will never go through something like that again.
This pup is healthy (well to a point), happy and has absolutely no idea he is ill. It was by chance that we found his glands had swollen in his neck, so we caught it about a week after he started showing any symptoms, it started with some extra panting and biting of his paws, we thought it was an allergic reaction to something he ate, but much to our dismay its not.
So the question is, has any of you went through this with your pup? We have some options, that range from "Keeping him comfortable" which will give him at most a couple of months. To full on chemo that can possibly put it in remission for years.
Its an agonizing choice as he is to young for me not to try everything I can. Though I refuse to let him suffer in any way. So I am very cautious as to which direction to go.
Last week one of my 5 year old pups was diagnosed with lymphoma. Tomorrow we have an appointment at the Animal cancer centre at the vet university. We have been through lymphoma before, but that pup was much older and in bad shape, I will never go through something like that again.
This pup is healthy (well to a point), happy and has absolutely no idea he is ill. It was by chance that we found his glands had swollen in his neck, so we caught it about a week after he started showing any symptoms, it started with some extra panting and biting of his paws, we thought it was an allergic reaction to something he ate, but much to our dismay its not.
So the question is, has any of you went through this with your pup? We have some options, that range from "Keeping him comfortable" which will give him at most a couple of months. To full on chemo that can possibly put it in remission for years.
Its an agonizing choice as he is to young for me not to try everything I can. Though I refuse to let him suffer in any way. So I am very cautious as to which direction to go.