Hello, Everyone! My name is Mollie and I am a Shar-pei/Blood Hound mix. I just turned 7 years old! Sometimes my mom calls me Miss Mollie Moo! My mom adopted me April 22nd, 2011. I have a brother named Bear and sister named Ixora. I love them sooo much!
June 2015 – My mom noticed a lump on my front right ankle. She took me to the doctor on June 24th and they took x-rays on my leg and a chest x-ray. The leg x-ray showed possible signs of bone cancer. The chest x-ray was clear. We went to an internal medicine doctor a week later and they did a aspiration needle biopsy and more chest x-rays. The chest x-rays showed no tumors. The doctor said by looking at the leg x-ray, it looks like bone cancer. She said the cancer probably has spread to my lungs but isn’t visible because it may be microscopic. We didn’t really like the doctor we saw. She treated us like we were just another patient with bone cancer. Another specialist called us a week later and told us the sad news. The cells from the needle aspiration showed Osteosarcoma. My mom was so sad. It took her a couple of weeks to accept the news.
I went back to Fairway Animal Hospital to see my favorite doctor, Dr. Turner. Dr. Turner called her oncologist friends and researched information about my illness. She said the best thing to do is amputate my leg. This will relieve my pain and hopefully extend my life a little more so I can spend quality time with my family. My mom and I are on this journey together and we want to share our journey with you!
Love,
Miss Mollie Moo
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