My God, has this been an adventure of emotional highs and lows. Let’s get the bad stuff out of the way first: We got the results of Oliver’s full limb biopsy back: stage three soft tissue sarcoma. The diagnosis was due to the over 50% level of necrosis in the tissue. Interestingly enough, absent that, […]

So, last night was the 1 week mark since Oliver’s amputation surgery. He’s doing better than I could have expected, but as always, I am wary. Because his last injury turned so hard on us… But, in the spirit of keeping positive energy, some thoughts: -My ten year old loves her Ollie and her Ollie […]

Whelp, the day almost ended well enough. Almost…and then one of our old villains showed up. See, Ollie doesn’t tolerate the cone of shame particularly well. He tries to paw it off (or at least he did before – I guess we haven’t tried it since, but his now gone paw wasn’t particularly working then […]

As I’m typing this, it’s thundering like crazy. Ollie is, thankfully, as always oblivious to it. Today wasn’t our strongest day. No really new wins, but no major losses so that’s something. A few observations: -Last night, he was pretty restless, wouldn’t really settle. I’d pulled him off the Tramadol because it zonks him and […]

This won’t be an every day thing, but for the days in this journey where it matters – perhaps the first two weeks or until a sense of normalcy for all of us returns, this allows me to speak aloud. The things about my Oliver is that he’s always been the coolest pup in any […]