Continued Prayers for Cincy -Surgery #2 Stitches are out and all is well!

[denise sandra marie]

Cincy girl is having another lump removed. This one is a large marble sized, and fairly hard on the outside of her left rear leg. The vet didn't like the look of it, and wanted it off, so today is the day. She is there now and I should have an update around noon.

Please keep the baby girl in your thoughts this morning! She's a trooper, but it doesn't make me worry any less!

My prayers blessings and love to Cincy and her mom , I hope all is well.
from Denise Sandra Marie.

[anna_66]

Amy, I'm really sorry to hear this news. I was so hoping that it wouldn't be cancer.
But hopefully like Kona & Oreo's mom said, she'll have the other surgery and it won't come back.

We'll be saying prayers for you, Ralph and Cincy.

(((HUGS)))
Anna

[Cincy'sMom]

Thanks everybody! And thanks K&O's mom for sharing about Oreo...I hope we are as lucky!

Right now I do have a very positive outlook about this. Last December, we were told Cincy had Dialated Cardiomyopathy, and when I started reading online about it, I thought maybe she'd have 6 months to a year. Maybe the diagnosis was wrong, and she has always had an enlarged heart, or maybe we just caught it so early she has truly developed the ture heart issues yet, but whatever the case, she is the happiest, toughest dog and a year later shows no sings of slowing down.

I can't imagine this tough little pup is going to get a little thing like cancer get her down either. She certainly doesn't know what she could be facing and she goes hard after everything...she sleeps hard (snoring like a fiend!), and plays hard (and never wants to quit!) and she definatly throws herself all in at dinner time too! She lives in the moment and just enjoys it. How can we not learn from her?

Stitches come out on Friday and we will talk more to the vet then and maybe get the next surgery scheduled.

[ramanth]

Oh my!

Lots of continued prayers and healing vibes for Cincy. *hugs*

[captain]

Prayers and hugs from DownUnder ......

[K9karen]

Our beloved Cincy is a fighter and will beat this!
Lots of hugs to all of you.

[Cincy'sMom]

Cincy had her staples out this morning, and the vet said the area is healing well. He feels that although this is an aggressive cancer, since it does have a low chance of spreading, attcking it with surgery is the best approach. He gave us the option of doing another surgery in about 5-6 weeks to go in, remove any un-neccesary tissue in the area and try to completly knock it out that way, or wait until it grows back and then go back in. Rough estimate was that it would be 3-4 months when something may reappear.

We have decided to go after this aggressively and not wait to see if it comes back. So, January 9 Cincy will be going in for another surgery. I'm not sure I completely understand, but it sounds like he will remove the skin and all the tissue he can in the lower part of her leg (think your ankle area). He will leave enough to not effect the blood supply and this should not interfere with mobility. Excess skin from the upper leg will be folded down to cover the area.

His thought is becuase it does not have a high liklihood to spread, even if we had to go through a few more surgeries that was the best approach. He uses lasers, and can section the tissue down to the bone if needed. He can be more precise then radiation and there is less risk to damaging the bone that way.

So that is where we are. No surgeries for Christmas, and early January should get things all healed up well before Spring Dog Park parties!