Month: February 2020

Monday morning…I go to work at 6AM. I leave Lilly sleeping.. She is dropped off at my sister’s shortly after I leave. Lilly amazed us all! She was walking, she ate by herself and went to the bathroom unassisted.

In the evening, I pick her up and she hopped across the room to greet me! My heart melted. She stood by the door and was ready to go home. I put her on the floor in the front seat of my car and she jumped up to the passenger seat. This is where she always sat and she would not have it any other way.

It’s 10AM Sunday morning, nurse lets Lilly walk into the room! She walks in and then takes a break.
Wow, what a difference! The doctor arrives and says she is ready to go home today. That was not what I was expected. I thought for sure she would be there until Monday night (that was my plan). Lilly was ready…but I was scared! What about pain meds, how do I take her to bathroom, the incision!!
The doctor assured me.. she would be ok…When we got home, she slept most of the day. I carried her and held her. At one point, we both enjoyed a nap on the recliner. She was exhausted.

Everything happened so fast. I didn’t have time to process it. Well, I had a meltdown. I felt guilty and upset. How could I do this to my baby? What if it comes back and I tortured her with this surgery for nothing
Surgeon asked me .. Do you want to visit her? I was afraid. What am I going to see? What if she gets too excited to see me and I can’t take her home? All these thoughts going through my head. But when nurse said maybe you can try to feed her, those thoughts went out the window. I had to go. When I got there, her tail wagged. She could not balance on 3 legs yet and had to be carried. I held her and my mom hand fed her… At that moment, I realized things are not going to be the same.. I am going to have to work on this and learn how to support her and make the best of it. I was glad I went and scheduled time for the following day to feed her breakfast!

Lilly, an almost 7 year young Cockapoo, became a Tripawd hero on Friday, February 21, 2020.  This was her 3rd surgery to remove mast cell tumors. First tumor discovered on November 5, 2017 on the right front leg.
Removed tumor but margins were not clean. Biopsy confirmed it was a low grade mast cell. She went on Palladia for a series of months. She was good until November 2019. Mast cell tumors came back on same leg and one on neck. Completely removed one on neck but could not get clean margin on the leg.
She started chlorambucil. A month later, a massive tumor grew back right where the incision was. There was no way to save the leg. We did tests… cancer was also in her lymph nodes. They were taken out as well. However, cancer was not found in other areas of the body, spleen, stomach etc. The decision was made. Surgery is scheduled for Friday, February 21, 2020.

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