Author: divasgirl

Didid never regained consciousness last night. Rest in peace my beautiful girl.

Diva is in emergency surgery right now.  Her stomach is distended to the size of a basketball and I feel like Im going to throw up.  Please send her good healing vibes and pray she makes it through this.  I know she is a strong girl but she has already been through so much.

Well it’s been a busy few days at our house! We got the call on Wednesday that after a day of recovering at the vet after her amputation, Diva was ready to come home! I excitedly sped to the vet after work in record time. I was nervous to see her but as soon aswall whipped out all of my nerves vanished. She was so happy to see us and immediately did the rottie lean onto my leg. She is wrapped in a semi pressure bandage to prevent fluid build up in the socket and protect her incision. She had a fentanyl patch on her paw that came off this morning and grunge grin! They had her muzzled for everyone’s protection since even the sweetest puppy can be grumpyafter such a traumatic surgery. She didn’t cry or whine which is what I was dreading. The vet says her age and fitness level had really made a huge difference in the recovery and will continue to do so.

Getting her in the car was quite a daunting task (before surgery she weighed a muscular 105 lbs) and I was so scared to hurt her. He did great the whole ride home and with the help of a towel sling she peed for the first time when we got home.  That night was sleepless for me worrying but diva passed out almost immediately.  She pooed in the yard for the first time yesterday and now I realize what you all say about celebratory potties! I was so excited!

She is walking without help and at her recheck today she was great! We are waiting for test results to come back and planning her chemotherapy options. Thing are looking up and te whirlwind seems to be calming :-).

Have to get back to work now and rush home to see my girl! Sorry if this was completely disjointed… Lol. See ya!

This is my first blog EVER so please, be kind!

I decided tonight, after reading nothing but questions/answers/blogs since Thursday of last week, that we needed to jump right in.  So here goes.

Diva is my 6 year old Rottweiler/child who was diagnosed with osteosarcoma last Thursday afternoon.  We had taken her to vet because of a rather persistent limp and never expected to hear the word CANCER.  We had taken her to a different vet about a week ago who told us to come back in 6 weeks if nothing improved… thank god we sought a second opinion.  So that was it, my baby girl has cancer.

The tumor was in her left shoulder and by Friday night she had lost control of her left leg and was dragging it.  We scheduled an amputation for Monday (yesterday) and loved up on her and kept her as comfortable as possible through the weekend.  I slept on the floor in the living room with her as she wasnt able to move very far.

Monday rolls around and we dropped her off at our incredible vet.  All my faith is in her and I trust her with everything (my baby girl).  She saved our yorkie a few months back and so i had no doubt when she told us she wanted to operate.  Anyhow, we got a call mid afternoon telling us that Diva’s surgery was postponed until today because of an unforseen (unrelated) emergency.  Diva stayed in the hospital over night and they operated today.  After hours of pacing and ringing my hands and imagining the worst, the vet called.  Diva made it out of surgery and is resting comfortably and sedated.

She opens her eyes when someone pets her but is not ready for visitors.  The house is quiet and I miss my girl.  She will be coming home in a few days and then this journey really begins.

I am so eternally grateful for the support we have gotten from friends and family and I want to be able to share Diva’s story.