Tia: April 30, 1995 to
July 29, 2007
Tia was first diagnosed with
mast cell tumor in the Spring of
2002. The vet performed
radical surgery and removed the
tumor, as well as 8 cm of
tissue around the tumor, she had
a slow recovery from the
surgery, but bounced back by
summer.
January 2006, I noticed that
she was limping on the way back
from her walk. I examined
her paw and noticed her toe nail
appeared very long and crooked,
upon taking her to the vet,
they cut away her toe nail and
we used antibiotic cream.
After 3 weeks, we realized that
is was not healing and we had to
amputate her toe, again they
were radical and removed a
significant amount of tissue and
bone to the next digit, again it
was cancer.
Tia bounced back from this
surgery very well, we continued
to monitor any lumps with
biopsies and she was quite
happy. In July 2007 she seemed
to have trouble walking and
getting up on the couch, her
favorite place to be, and then
she stopped eating.
The vet tried Metacam and
without much luck we x-rayed her
hips - they were perfect,
especially for a her size (130
lbs.) Two days later, Tia
could not walk at all, her back
legs gave out on her, we rushed
her to emergency clinic, where
they x-rayed her lungs, stomach
and side, she was full of
cancer, a tumor on her spine was
causing the walking problem, the
tumor in her stomach causing the
eating disorder, and a tumor
in each lung.
I took her home, where the vet
came to put her to sleep the
next day, the hardest and
saddest thing I had to do.
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