Dosed her yesterday morning. She spent most of the day on the couch sleeping on my wife.
Shes been drooling some grosse looking and rancid smelling drool. She would be licking it ofg her front leg like every 5 seconds. She wasnt drooling much at all.wasnt licking her leg much either.
There were hints of her rancid breath but you had to be really close tobher snoot to smell it.used to smell it across the room. Weve gotten a few whiffs of it this morning. But not even close to how bad its been for the last month.
The lump on her face has definately shrunk a bit.its about half the size it was when i started this.
Oh boy did she want to eat last night. My wife had some stew meat that she cooked up with some carrots,frozen peas and some other stuff. Put it in a blender to break up the big chunks of stew meat. She cant open her mouth more than about halfway and im sure its painful for her to chew. She slurped it right up and was looking for more!
She was feeling good last night. Back to being her normal pain in the ass self. I was not expecting much from this treatment. I sure wasnt expecting to see any changes for atleast a week if at all.i dont know if its killing the cancer or not but it is doing something. Im surprised and happy with the results so far so we will keep going with it and hope for the best.
Thank you everyone for the prayers,kind words and encouragement.
For those who havent seen the previous discussions. This is the treatment im trying. https://www.prairiedoghall.com/curing-my-dogs-cancer/
My vet is pretty good about things. I said i wanted to ask him about fenben.before i could finish the sentence he said " i heard about it being used in humans for cancer but havent heard if it works.i dont think it will work but it wont hurt to try.come see me at the office and ill give you some". I met up with him to get it and discuss it. He handed me a bottle of the liquid stuff and syringe to measure it with and told me to let him know what happens.
Shes not getting any commercial dog food now. My wife is cooking her all meats and some veggies. Im iffy on raw meats from stores.god only knows what kind of nasties are growing in or on it.
Cant give her bones cuz she cant really open her mouth far. and its probably a bad idea with the bone showing through the roof of her mouth. Its probably painful for her to chew stuff So im sticking with soft mushy stuff that she can just slurp and swallow.
Find someone who has some extra venison.. I had a whole deer processed for an individual for their dog and health..
About twenty years ago we treated adrenal disease in one of our ferrets with a human drug and it was considered experimental by our vet who worked with my mom who's a pharmacist. Not even ten years later that had become a standard treatment and nowadays they have six month implants instead of monthly injections. Sadly it doesn't cure the condition but it often buys an extra two or three years of life and mostly returns the animal to normal.
(1) I would still give this paper to the vet, especially if your vet is open to the idea to begin with. It might give him an "ah-ha!" moment because it gives a plausible reason why the Fenben could work -- especially so, if it actually does work.
(2) Did you feed your dog commercial dog food for MOST of its life?
(3) Say what you will about raw meat from stores, but there is nowhere on Earth that has more checks and balances in maintaing strict standards in selling meat to the public. They have USDA food inspectors on site 24/7. If ANY problem comes up, they throw out the entire batch of meat, shut down the operation, require a full chemical scrub clean of the entire plant, and then re-open. There has not been any real issues in many years. The raw meat thing is a scare, not a reality.
(4) Understandable if you can't give her bones, but the marrow inside the bones has very healthy properties, and is soft and pliable. Can be added to the meat, without the bone. Also, bone broth could be cooked up and poured into a bowl to drink.
Good luck.
She ate commercial food. But honestly she eats more people food than dog food. Wich includes every thing she shouldnt be eating. Probably more my fault than the dog food.
Where i live,things have been questionable. I forget what we got but when my wife opened it,it was full of mold.
My wife was planning on boiling some bones. She getting nothing but meats and apparently she doesnt like veggies. If she gets through this that spoiled mutt will eat gormet meals for the rest of her life.
Awesome! Make sure that marrow is in there, too. You can get it from any butcher (in case you are getting them from a pet food store that does not have the marrow).
She is telling you what she wants. Listen to her.
She is genetically related to wolves (as all dogs are). What do they eat? Gormet meals? No. They eat raw meat in the wild. That IS their gormet meal.
Good luck.