Refu-pea Power, it is Princess, pets, furbabies, & old dogs

Update Tuesday Feb 3:  She got a full massage as all her joints were checked out.  Changing her pain meds, and doing another round of cold laser therapy on her lower joints (in humans that would be her knees and elbows).  Decided NOT to do more needle biopsies; but they did measure each of her 37 lumps and made up a new body chart showing their locations.  We are also doing a pee test, since she has been having problems. If she has a UTI we will treat it. Blood work last month showed no signs of anything like diabetes. 

We did discuss the cancer, and since we are not doing much other to make her comfortable and control her pain, going for more testing is not advised. 

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As you all can see Princess, "queen of the house" is not doing well. She is doing a brave fight, and we believe she does have cancer running riot in her. That "lumpy appearance" isn't fur patterning, she is getting more lumpy.


At 13 years and two months of age we are doing palliative care only. She is a doggie hospice patient now. Maggie and Bailey "know" and have "known" for some time now, we people were slow to pick up.


We have a vet appointment tomorrow morning, the fight is not over, but it will not last much longer. But I am not sure if I want to do more cell sampling of the newer and faster growing lumps.


The procedure is painful for her, and there is not much we would do at her age. Nor could we do, given the possible location as up in both her hips and in one shoulder.


Her brother/littermate died last month from cancer (I do not know the type or how long he had it). Since she had Vestibular syndrome in August, we have been very much aware of her fragility and her inevitable death.