Good Day,

How is everything with you, I picked interest on you after going through your short profile and deemed it necessary to write you immediately. I have something very vital to disclose to you, but I found it difficult to express myself here, since it's a public site.Could you please get back to me on:( mr.frankkwabena@yahoo.com.hk ) for the full details.

Have a nice day

Thanks God bless.

Mr.Frank

Thinking about you and Gilbert!  Just looked at your pictures of your babies  on your web site!  You are right.  This part of owning dogs is so devastating, but they teach us to open our hearts to love, and just live in this moment To give and receive!.We are all so lucky to be awakened by them.  This is really what life is about!  Praying for you and Gilbert and Abby.  Sincerely, Barb and Macy

Hope Gilbert is eating better today!  Upstate Veterinary is a great place!  They had Mouta's pic on the wall for a while.  They gave it to us after we lost her.  We drove up to say thanks to them all fro taking such good care of Mouta.  I'm sure they will take excellent care of Gilbert too, whatever method of treatment you choose!  (I love Gilbert's name!)

Sorry...got my places mixed up..SC Veterniary Referral is in Columbia...where Mouta had her surgery & was diagnosed by Dr. Waschak She had her radiation treatments at Upstate Veterinary Specialists there in Greenville with Dr. Wall.

Andrew, Welcome to the site. So sorry to hear about Gilbert.  You all will certainly be added to my prayers!  Gilbert and Abby are both adorable!  What a big boy he is.  We lost our Sharmouta, or just Mouta, to sarcoma nearly 3 years ago now and I still miss her terribly, even though we have 3 other dogs and a cat.  She held a very special place in out hearts. Fight K9 Cancer is another group here you might want to check out.  It is a wonderful place to vent and talk to others who have been through this.

Hi Andrew---I have neglected to ask---what course is the Vet recommending? I am curious to know what the cure rate is. With Bailey, we knew we would lose him sooner than later, but we did all we could. Do you have an oncologist? We had some success with diet and I wish we would have tried a holistic vet also.

Keep us posted and know your family and Gilbert are in our prayers! This group can be prayer warriors when it comes to our fur kids!

Andrew:

Sorry for the news that Gilbert has the big C; we know how devastated we were when Rusty was diagnosed. 

If you want to read my journal "Rusty's Cancer Chronicles", it will provide you with the details of what we have been through with Rusty.  It is posted on my blog.  After his amputation he was on two kinds of Chemo for 6 months and then only one for the next six months.  Overall he has handled the Chemo fairly well, possibly because he is much younger than most dogs that develop cancer as he will be 3 at the end of July.  We have had a lot of challenging issues with the side effects from the Chemo but nothing that we weren't prepared for. 

Rusty just celebrated his 16th month anniversary since his amputation; if we had not undergone Chemo Rusty would not be with us now.  His prognosis was from 1 to 3 yrs after surgery and Chemo, so we are almost halfway and we enjoy every moment that he is with us.

We also read Dr. Dressler's book, but Rusty's cancer was so advanced and extremely aggressive that we had no choice but to go with amputation & Chemo.  With all of the challenges that we have faced and seeing how Rusty had dealt and handled each one, we would not hesitate to make the same decision again.

Chuck

Andrew

So sorry to hear about Gilbert.  It's a heart wrenching journey with this disease, but you couldn't be in a better place for support, ideas and just people to vent to or lean on.  This group is literally my lifeline right now with my Sadie.  Please don't ever hesitate to post, we are all here for you.

Ellen

What sweet faces! My Benson can demolish a squueky toy in abot 30 seconds---I don't know why I buy them for him! It looks like Gibert can do the same!