On May 31, 2012, Dolly, a six-year old dog, and her owner Rachel, received the sad news that Dolly had osteosarcoma. Since her diagnosis, Dolly has had her rear left leg removed has received two treatments of carboplatin chemotherapy. Rachel learned of the Mason Bone Cancer Study going on at the School of Veterinary Medicine […]
We’re back in Philly, well, Parkesburg, PA for the night, but Philadelphia tomorrow for Sasha’s second treatment in the Mason Bone Cancer Study at the University of Pennsylvania. We drove up to Pennsylvania from Raleigh, NC today, and we are spending the night at my parent’s home. We’ll head to UPenn tomorrow at about 7AM […]
Molly, the second dog in the Mason Bone Cancer Study, just finished her stay at UPenn with Dr. Mason. Her owner, Jenn, says that Molly was fairly comfortable during her stay at the hospital. She received the L. Monocytogenes vaccine on Tuesday, July 24. Molly’s temperature increased two degrees above normal as a result of […]
About a week has passed since we returned to Raleigh from Philadelphia, where Sasha received her first treatment in the Mason Bone Cancer Study. She is doing extremely well! Take a look at this video: We took Sasha to our local vet on Wednesday to have blood drawn and sent to Dr. Mason at UPenn. […]
History was made on July, 10, 2012, when Sasha underwent her first round of treatment in the Mason Bone Cancer Study at the University of Pennsylvania School Of Veterinary Medicine. The study takes a novel approach to fighting cancer using a recombinant L. monocytogenes vaccine to, hopefully, cause anti-tumor activity of the body’s immune […]
A couple of days ago, Liliana sent me a link to one of her favorite blogs: Love & a six-foot leash. I had visited this site before and enjoyed looking at the photos of Aleksandra’s dogs, and the dogs that she fosters. Aleksandra and her family help a few unlucky pit bull-type dogs by taking […]
Carli Davidson does a beautiful job at capturing the strange and distorted faces of dogs shaking. Her stop-action photographs of dogs (and one cat) show what happens to the loose skin and fur of our four legged best friend’s faces when they shake their heads from side-to-side, as they do when they get wet. […]
Sasha has continued to improve. She gets around just fine now, and is even able to jump up onto, and down from the sofa. The pain around the surgery site is minimal. She often chooses to lay on her right side now, and Liliana and I are able to pet her near, and even on […]
Sasha continues to do well. We brought her back from the vet’s office on Thursday after having her right arm amputated due to a tumor on her humerus caused by osteosarcoma. Her pain seems to have diminished greatly even though we have begun to ween her off of her pain meds. She wags her tail […]
Sasha is doing so much better. She is no longer whimpering, and she is getting around well. She can even get up and down the three steps of our deck when she needs to go outside to do her business. She hasn’t needed help to lay down for two days, and she is beginning to perk up […]