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Old 06-23-2004, 09:48 AM
frontierrots frontierrots is offline
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Join Date: Jun 1998
Location: Unity, NH USA
Re: dealing with bladder cancer

Angelica is 12 1/2 years and she was diagnosed with TCC (transitional cell carcinoma) of the bladder in May 2002. I was given 6 - 12 months as a life span for her. We opted not to do surgery because TCC spreads like mold spores and plus if my dog was going to be incontinent it would not be a good life quality

When she was diagnosed she could barely urinate, it would drip out, 1 drop at a time. She had a nasty UTI as well. We started her on the Piroxicam and within 24 hours she could urinate fine. She was on antibiotics 2 weeks. We also started her on Chinese herbs. She was still eating kibble. A few weeks later she became deathly ill. Vomiting blood clots and urinating blood clots and sick as ,, well, a dog. I was sure she was dying. She laid on the floor and would not move except to vomit. We stopped all meds and I fed her a bit of raw burger at a time. She seemed a bit better a couple days later but not much. The vet decided that the Piroxicam was eating her insides and prescribed Sucralfate twice a day 1 hour before eating to heal her. We then started the Piroxicam again and raw burger but no Chinese herbs. Within 4 weeks she was healthy again and she has never looked back!

Angelica is 75lbs and takes 1 gm Sucralfate 1 hour prior to her supper then takes 10 mg of Piroxicam after supper. She also takes 1 tbsp Ultraclear plus in water am before breakfast and 2 Tbsp Ultraclear plus in water before supper.

She eats 8 oz Bravo raw beef am + 3/8 can of Innova, supper is 4 oz Bravo raw beef and 1/4 can Innova

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