Well thanks.
I'll give him the nose pats, hugs and kisses from all of you while we veg in front of the TV tonight per Doctor's and DallasGold's orders.

He has the boil visible in the picture and an adenoma on the other side that has started growing in the last few weeks. They are unsightly and make many people back away from him. That is so sad because he just loves everybody. His ortho vet didn't hesitate to "get all over him" and that sure endears him to me. He's a cute little youngster too that I would have been all over 20 years ago.

Hopefully the prednisone and laser treatments will put us back on the upslope of the roller coaster.

We continue the ride. The help, support and friendship I get from this forum helps enormously.

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Copper's Mom (always )

Sweet, sweet Cooper. Hugs and kisses to your special boy.

People can be so cruel and heartless- it's no different than when someone sees a handicap person, they see the shell/body, not the spirit and person inside. So sad.......

If I had met you guys in Petsmart you could be sure I would have showered your Copper boy with affection. I get the same thing from people when they see Tucker, the "what happened to him" thing.

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We got the stares from strangers with poor Barkley during his chemotherapy treatments. In addition to his bare belly from the splenectomy he developed hyperpigmentation from the Doxorubicin....huge black spots on his skin. His fur got very patchy too. He looked pretty pathetic but underneath it all was the sweet Barkley spirt we loved so much.

I'm glad Copper is resting up so he can get in trouble once his soreness is gone!

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Well, I think people are nuts. There's plenty of Golden there to love on, even with his boo-boo. I think he's beautiful.

All of us seniors are pretty-well scarred and battered; it isn't easy getting THIS old!

I would give him hugs and pats and kisses.

We are on the "geriatric roller coaster" again too. I am still not recovered from my last "ride" but will do what I can to make sure my senior boy is happy and comfortable for as long as I can. It is exhausting in so many ways and not many people understand that...but I would do it over and over and over.

My Archie is 12 now. He has been comfortable on Metcam and Tramadol but we just stopped the Metacam (and will for a week). We are going to try Cortizone to see if he issues are disc related. The Cortizone will work if they are. If not, we go back to Metacam. He doesn't appear to be in ANY pain, but recently his back end went totally out. He was able to recover thankfully. We are chosing not to do an MRI because we don't want to put him through any surgery, so we are going the Cortizone route for short term.

He sees a Chiropractor and we have another appointment this Wednesday. It was really helping him but then his back end went out so I'm not really sure what we are dealing with at this point. It seems that he is following the same path as my last Golden who most likely had Degenerative Myelopathy.

This forum has helped me in the past and is also helping me now as I read all the ways people are helping their Senior Goldens. So I thank you all for that. Give your dogs a kiss on the nose from me!

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Jeanne in NJ
Archie-GRRI-NJ Rescue (12 yrs, 8 months old)
Halo-Lazyriver Circle of Love (2 years old)
Angelo-My Angel-WE MISS YOU (4/12/95-1/05/09)

I can't recommend acupunture strongly enough. It has made SUCH a difference for my Toby! You might want to consider it. Chiro worked for him for a while, but then no longer seemed to be helping.

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Gibson's Golden Girl, CD, CGC, TDI (born 3-20-1997), a.k.a. "Tiny"

CH Rosewood Little Giant, UDX VER RA JH OAP NJP VCX WC CCA CGC FFX-OG (born 3-10-2007), also U-CH U-UD U-JJ U-RO1 U-HIT a.k.a. "Tito" (the Tito Monster) www.GoTeamTito.com

and my heart dog
Gibson's Golden Guy, CD, CGC, TDI ( 01-31-1998 - 01-02-2012) a.k.a. "Toby", "HRH"

Know exactly what you mean - sadly my last geriatric rollercoaster ended in 2008 and have been through it with Kelly, Ginny, Holly and Ralph - but I would not have missed one minute of it. Yes of course I would have loved there to be no illnesses etc but we don't live in a perfect world.

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Kelly, Ginny, Ralph & Holly - Forever in my heart

"I miss the wagging little tail,
I miss the plaintive pleading wail,
I miss the wistful loving glance,
I miss the circling welcome dance"