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Location: Sloan, NY, USA
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 9
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Thanks for your response. I apologize for taking so long to reply. If things weren't already bad enough.
We just learned that Haley also is suffering from Pancreatic Insulinoma. So her blood sugar is perpetually low. How ironic.
Our Chihuahua mix, Moonshine, is diabetic. I'm Type 1 for nearly 50 years. I just managed to get Moonshine's blood sugar under control and now Haley's perpetually hypoglycemic.
Because of the DM Haley isn't a candidate for the procedure to remove the tumor. The vet said in his experience even otherwise healthy dogs have not survived more than a few months after the surgery.
Haley is still functioning fairly well. I know she hurts but she's still acting very happy and plays with our newest dog, Daisy, a Cavi Dachshund mix. And she's definitely still guarding us. That makes me really reticent to have her put down yet although I know that's going to be the final outcome.
Sorry to vent. I guess I'm still not over the pup Daisy "replaced". That was Evie. A Rat Terrier Poodle mix we rescued when she was 13. A week before Christmas, literally one day to the next, she was fine then she went into kidney failure. We'd only had her 2 years and I just wasn't ready to let my "12 pounds of meanness" go. TBH, I'm still not over her.
Anyway, back to the subject. I've ordered Haley a rear lift harness to help her get her feet under her and for coming up the 3 stairs to go into the main house.
Thanks again for your help and again I apologize for going way off into the weeds.