When brieblue was just a little over a year old she broke her left hind leg. Taking her to many specialist it Was our best option to perform surgery and have 3 medal pins inserted. After five years with no issues on March 15 she was playing outside jumping came down on her bad leg and developed a sudden limp. I waited 2 days thinking hopefully it would get better but it did not. Took her to the emergency room at first they told us a maybe a tear. I had never dreamt in a million years the news I was going to receive. Xrays came back with a tumor right where her pins were installed. My heart broke in a million pieces I was not anywhere close to be able to handle the rest of the news the dr was about to tell me. Osteosarcoma and our odds were bleak. Given her breed and the trauma from her previous injury they were positive. Racing the next few days getting multiple opinions all with covid coming down hard in my area. Our only option was amputation and hoping for osteomyelitis. Well after 2 weeks of waiting on our results we got the news yes it was osteosarcoma. Now the next big question was to do chemo or not. With only one oncologist in my city and the fact that we had come this far I felt I had to continue the fight for her. We have had just 1 round of chemo which blew out her white count. We are hoping for round 2 but I am telling myself maybe this is a sign that this is not what we should be doing. She is doing well minus her counts. She has not experienced any of the symptoms that come with osteosarcoma yet and dread that day. I wish five years ago that I would have amputated the leg rather than trying to mend it. Maybe then we wouldn’t be going through all of this. I wish I would have done my research a bit better prior to amputation and tried the T cell option. I had no idea that was even a thing. For now we take it day by day. We are going to fight hard and enjoy every second we have. My comfort at this point is I know she is not in pain with leg.
