OOna exitstageright
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a busy evil mastermind has no time for picture take, you know...worlds to dominate, humans to control, little fluffy felt balls to play with...wha, oh yes that right, OOna kitty evil mastermind doesn't play with silly felt balls...she's much too serious for that...
Obey the OOna kitty!
Bella thatdamnfoot2
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Just another angle...
surgery tomorrow, wish Bella luck...
Bella thatdamnfoot
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Here's one of the x-rays of her foot and the evil toe, you can see the swelling and if you look closely at the tip you can see the deterioration of the bone.
Bella toughyear
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A Tough Year…
Well, it seems that 2008 has not been a banner year for team Bella, as soon as we have gotten beyond one block another drops right down in front of us (or should I call them bombs). As you can see another Bella bomb has hit us, but not to worry because the little purple nose princess is up and ready for the fight.
So…a little background on what’s been going on (I’ll try to keep this brief), about a little over a week ago Bella started to limp (or rather favor her left back foot. Now this is the same foot that had the nasty, kick-the-shit out of us cancer on it back in 2005 (that super Bella beat I might add, but man that’s a story for the history books). Well being that it was the same foot and the fact that Bella has two crazy as cotton-candy, super hypersensitive dog folks for parents, as soon as she started limping and then when one of her toes started to swell, it was off to the vet she went. Unfortunately, we could not take her specialist vet, Dr. Stubbs, so we had to take her in to see one of her local vets, Dr. Carlson (who is a very good vet too, but just not a specialist and when you have a Bella monster that keeps coming up with new thing and ways to spend money, a specialist is what you really need). Anyway, we took her to see Dr. Carlson, he examined her foot and toe and said that nothing seemed broken but said that we might take her in to see Dr. Stubbs when she gets back into town (we were already planning on doing just that, nothing like Dr. Stubbs, she has a super cape…no, really, she does).
Ok, so we get Bella back home and have to wait a few days to go see Dr. Stubbs
out at her office which is way, way, way…way…outside the city (did I mention that we are nuts and will just about do anything for our little girl). In the meantime, Bella is limping more and the swollen toe starts to bleed. Yes, we did freak a little, but being that we have gone through about every medical condition (and a few you would never even think of), we still kept our heads, treated her toe and kept her comfortable to the best of our ability.
We got into see Dr. Stubbs Monday afternoon and after she examined Bella’s foot and toe from ever which way you can think of, x-rays and the works. I guess this is where you get to say that life really, really sucks sometimes. The x-rays basically showed that the middle toe bone (the same one that had the cancer before) did not read clearly, which roughly means that there is definite deterioration of the bone at the tip. Shit…
There was a small bright spot in all this, because of the way the bone looked in the x-ray, Dr. Stubbs did not think that it was osteosarcoma but rather more likely malignant melanoma or squamous carcinoma which yes are both cancer but not as horrible as the ass-hole osteosarcoma (sorry for the color added today but hey sometimes it just makes you fell a little better to cuss).
So now we faced the need to find a specialist/surgeon (one that not only was familiar with this, but that could tell us where to go from here and that we three all liked), luckily Dr. Stubbs had just the surgeon – Dr. Corse of Northlake Veterinary Surgery – and they got Bella in to look her over today. We sat down with Dr. Corse, went over Bella medical history (no small feat, mind you), talked about what we were looking at, and how she looked and felt. And as you might imagine, the Bella monster acted as silly as she always does with her big silly grin while Dr. Corse examine not only her foot and toe, but every other inch of her just to make sure everything is going well.
We did come away with fairly good news though, Dr. Corse won’t know for definite until the blood test come back, but he was pretty sure that the cancer in her toe is only affecting the toe and that he can remove it without issue and completely take out the cancer. She will lose her middle toe, but it shouldn’t be that much of an issue even with her walking after her recovery. He also said that she is in great health otherwise, even her lungs are doing really well even with the tumor there (for info on this tumor story please see earlier post). He also pointed out that she has little to almost no arthritis except in the toe that has the cancer (as crazy as that is). AND, he can get her in for surgery tomorrow! (This is one of those thing where, the sooner the better and with the holiday we just didn’t know if we would be able to it done so quickly.
So this is where we are at now, surgery for her toe tomorrow and recovery over the holiday. I will try to keep you updated as to how things progress, keep little Miss. Bella in your thoughts and prays. Oh and if you are counting, this will be Bella 4th battle with cancer and yes she ready. The girl is a miracle pup after all.
Sorry this is so long (and choppy), i’ll try to post her x-rays too.
Love from Bellaland!
