<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">My Milo, an approximately now 10 year old rescue who came to live with me 2 years ago was diagnosed with lymphoma last Oct 11 and given one year to live, with treatment...</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">that was extra sad , since I lost Tulip, a 9 year old rescue just before Milo came to live with me to the same dreaded , merciless disease.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">I opted to give Milo a modified version of the classic chemo treatment at a much reduced price from cancer clinics. The steep price reduction, although still hefty, was due to the fact it was administered by my vet, who was in consultation with a canine oncologist.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">In a year that was mostly positive, except for a few cases when my little guy's body objected to the strong chemicals and he was sick to his stomach for a few days, we have had a good year. Milo started out with 5 or 6 lumps in his chest and as each treatment was tried, the lumps would disappear only to return and then another form of treatment was tried.The vet has told me that when the list of different chemo injections and pills run out, then there is nothing more to do. Two weeks ago we got our last try and the two large lumps in his neck have grown back already and I can tell it is affecting him. The groans when he gets up or shifts his position, the picky eating, the lethargic manner all replaced , just a short time ago, the trotting, food devouring, happy faced, adoring hound that has been my companion these two years. He is due for a blood test tomorrow in preparation for the last chemo injection next friday.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">I KNOW this has been endured over and over and over by so many people, including myself , and hounds in this exact same situation, but that doesn't make it any easier. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Now, I am faced with a decision as to when it must all be ended. The spring is gone from his step , the voraciousness has gone from his eating and some pain has come in it's place. I know, soon, his eating will stop altogether and then I know we will be close.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">I just wanted to share my pain and our story because you wonderful people alone would understand what I am going through.</font></div><br></body></html>