June 29th 2009 3:04 pm
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Adopted mom has already been talking about the wonderful support she has gotten from Lookout Mountain Veterinary Clinic and especially from Dr Betsy and her Team over at the Integrative Veterinary Oncology Clinic out of Phoenix Az. (and they have great resources there that should be the first place checked: http://www.integrativeveterinaryoncology.com/index.html !)

Sometimes people dont have access to the kind of direct support Adopted Mom has now. This is where belonging to an email list can make a huge difference in finding the best and updated ssources referred by other dog owners who are experiencing the same kind of challenges with their specific cancers.

CanineCancer at the yahoo groups has been one of Adopted Moms favorite groups over the years.
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/CanineCancer/ however you need to have a dog with cancer to be a member. They have amny great resources right there from diet and nutrition (including when dogs refuse to eat, cancer drug information, household remedies to help augment the medical support your own dog's vet may be give to talk about and many many links.

If you are one of the ones determined to be proactive, there are several email lists which can help with a holistic lifestyle.
There is so much one acan do ahead of time if one is willing to help reduce risk, but joining many wellness lists available on yahoo (Adopted Mom's favorite type) and Goggle. Adopted Mom is a member of Wellpet, nevetsavesmoneyonvetbills, holistic dog, doghealth, canineanimalcare-naturally, and AuNaturelK9s.

Some of those are high volume lists so it may be easier for you to join and then check in to webmail or go no mail and search by topic of interest.

My and my fourlegged pals have taught Adopted Mom alot about listening to her intuition. she says that there are so many other then conscious signals which we may not even realize which can trigger that intuition that there is something useful or revelvent to talk to the vet about.

As tough as this kind of journey is on use fourleggeds, it is nuttin to how hard it is on you-all who have to watch us go through this, trying to guess what helps, what eases our way, how much or little to do and when...

so Ill be back soon diary, cause I got alot more to say about this for caregivers AND care providers!!!