Shelby The Husky Paw Lump Update

Good wonderful beautiful morning Pawdience! Look at you! Let's see little Miss Memphis over here. You just look all worn out! Oh! You think I'm gonna pet you? Is that the... The hands are coming! She might pet me! Oh! There goes the tail! Oh my goodness! It's getting closer! You're such a sweetheart! Yes you are! I love you girl! Hey! I think today is the day we're gonna tell everybody what's going on with Shelby's paw. So this is not a normal vlog. This entire video is basically gonna be an update on what is going on with Shelby's paw. What we're in the process of doing. Haven't really done a lot of updates. We had a lot of things going on when Oakley passed away and then we were traveling and just haven't really had a whole lot of time to update you guys. And we weren't really sure what we wanted to do. For those of you that don't know what's going on I'll give you a short little story and then I'll try to link to some videos up above as well. They'll actually be on the dog's channel though. Oh! Grunty? Are you grunty? Yeah? Are you grunty? So long story short Shelby has an infiltrated fatty tumor on her paw. It is on this paw here. You can see the lump kind of coming through right here. I'm not gonna touch it. And then it also comes out the bottom of her paw. That's my hand. Comes out the bottom of her paw. So it goes through like... It's hard for me. Here! Can I use your paw? So it would go here and then it comes out like right... Like right here on her paw. So basically it goes through that whole toe. Not on Memphis though. On Shelby. What it is, is an infiltrated fatty tumor. For those of you that may not know there are two types of fatty tumors. I actually think there's only the two. There's regular fatty tumors which are a fatty tumor that is encased in basically like a bubble or a balloon. The fatty tumor is inside the balloon. There's like a bubble or a sac around it. People can get them. Dogs can get them. Basically what happens is the regular fatty tumors, you can kind of move around a little bit. They're soft and squishy. Normally they're really not a big deal unless they're in a bad location. Like if they're real close to a joint or if they're like in their shoulder and it hurts their mobility. A lot of dogs have fatty tumors that grow and they don't get removed until they get too big. Things like that. They don't normally harm anything. An infiltrated fatty tumor actually has no sac and instead of just staying in a ball that's kind of just there and squishy it grows into everything around it. Kind of like cancer that metastasizes. But it's not cancer. It's different than cancer. I've learned a lot about infiltrated fatty tumors in the past couple of months. Like I said, it's not cancer. It's similar to the way it grows though. Shelby has this infiltrated fatty tumor on her paw. Now we're going to get to the update part of everything. This coming Thursday, December 20th, we have scheduled her an MRI. We had an MRI scheduled before we were going to go to New York. But I decided I didn't want to have to go through all that in the middle of traveling, trying to come back from Novi, then doing an MRI, then going to New York. I don't know, I just felt really uncomfortable doing it. So we decided to wait and then of course I, I don't know, got nervous and didn't really want to schedule it. And anyway, long story short, we have the MRI scheduled for December 20th. MRI's are not cheap. They're not fun. She's going to have to be put under anesthesia to have this MRI. They said it should take like two to three hours to have the whole thing done. I don't know if we'll get the results that day or not. I actually didn't ask that. But we're going to a surgeon down in or a hospital, animal hospital down in Flint, Michigan that I already forgot the name of. But it is in Flint, Michigan. I called quite a few different ones and when I talked to the people at that one on the phone they were super, super nice. Very just, I don't know, I just got that good feeling like these are good people. Plus I had quite a few of my friends that had either had surgeries there or MRI's done there with their dogs and they were very happy with them. If you've been following this whole story, Shelby went to the Animal Cancer and Imaging Center in Canton, Michigan when she had the cancer right by her tail. And I really liked them for what they did with that. But when it came to this again, going back to the old part of the story, we had a CT scan done on her paw and it came back and said it wasn't an infiltrating I'm sorry, it came back and the doctor said it was no longer an infiltrating tumor so we thought it wasn't an infiltrating tumor anymore and then we went down for a surgical consult to have it removed and the surgeon said it was an infiltrating pseudofatty tumor and that she would not touch it without an MRI. And well... I get that one was a doctor, one was a surgeon I mean they are both doctors but one was like a general practitioner type of veterinarian and one was a surgeon so they probably both read the CT scan differently I didn't like that we had two different answers like if the doctor the first doctor wasn't 100% sure they shouldn't have told us that and yet they did I have the paper that says it on it and then the surgeon to tell us something completely different after we drive all the way down there because it was four hours away thinking we're getting a surgical consult for her to literally walk in the room and say I can't do anything without an MRI they could have called us and told us that like I don't understand why we had to go down there and pay money to don't complain, right? Don't complain, right Shelby? Don't complain so anyway we're taking her down there on Thursday to have an MRI done on her paw to figure out the next steps. Now what does that mean? Depending on what the MRI says we may be able to do surgery which is what we would like to do because as of right now she can't really like I tried to run around the bike she can't really run because of where it is on the bottom of her paw without it being uncomfortable we're not sure if she'll be able to pull a sled this year because of it if we don't get it removed. If they say it can be removed safely or at least debulked because I don't think they can remove the whole thing. That's probably what we'll end up doing. Look at this Miss Cuteness over here. What are you doing Miss Cuteness? If they say it can't be completely removed and things like that we'll get it debulked. If they say even debulking it is not an option that it would cause more issues than necessary then I guess we just continue doing what we're doing and giving her the supplements we've been giving her. I've been putting some anti-inflammatory stuff on her paw she gets canapet she gets turmeric added into her diet she actually gets a bunch of different things I was going to get the fur out of you Fine! I won't. I won't get the fur out of your eye. You get it out of your eye yourself Oh! You're going to tip your foot over so I can show them? Right? Can I just show them? So right there see that? That's where the bump comes through the bottom of her foot so that's on the bottom and then that is on the top so now you guys kind of get an idea so yeah so there's that now as we've done before and as I know is going to happen in the comments I know you guys are going to ask how can you help what can you do to help and I've gone back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and whether or not I should start a GoFundMe for Shelby we've done that in the past and what we've done in the past is whenever we've started a GoFundMe for one of our dogs we only take a small portion of the money for our dogs and then we use the rest of it to pay it forward to either other GoFundMe accounts or the angel care fund at our local veterinary office which is Switzer's veterinary clinic they have an angel care fund we'll share the money there or we'll do like we'll see other animals in need I donated to a horse not long ago so that's kind of what we do and I've gone back and forth in my brain do I start a GoFundMe do I not start a GoFundMe I think I'm going to go ahead and do it and I will post like copies of all the bills so you guys can see what we've already spent on Shelby's paw and then like the estimates actually we shouldn't even get an estimate for the MRI we'll just have the bill from the MRI well either way I'll post it as an update so I'm going to go ahead and post that if you guys want to donate to the GoFundMe I know it's Christmas time please please please do not feel like you have to do it yes I know that I've talked to friends of ours and they've kind of told everybody that with everything that's happened with Shelby this year and then what happened with Oakley and Oakley's surgery earlier this year our emergency veterinary fund is very low for the dogs right now but it's it's okay we can still pay for it we just gotta work on whoa there's a pumpkin we just gotta work on building that up again the reason I'm gonna do the GoFundMe is because I know a lot of you guys really want to help and it gives us the ability to help others with that as well please don't feel like you have to donate to it we're not I don't want it to sound like we're begging for money we're not we're gonna pay for it no matter what it's not gonna be something like oh if we don't get it we can't pay for it please don't think that's what it is if you want to know other ways you can help it's really simple watch our videos you know we do make money on our videos things like that watch our content share our content tell your friends about us really that's one of the other ways you can help we have merchandise you can buy there's all kinds of things you can do so please don't feel like you have to but I am gonna start it because every time something like this happens literally you guys beg me to do it anyway so I'm gonna do it I'm gonna start the GoFundMe I'm not gonna like super promote it or anything like that but I will put it out there and if you want to donate to Shelby's Vet Fund feel free I've had a couple people that have already done it and have sent things in the mail you guys are just amazing I mean you really are you really really are but that's kind of where we're at with Shelby's Paw I know you guys have been waiting on an update but I haven't wanted to share it because I don't know because I don't want to share sad things and we're all still sad and have a lot of pain from Oakley passing away and I don't want to scare anybody and think that something bad is going to happen to Shelby yes I know she's 11 years old yes I know she had cancer and all those things look at you you're so cute and all of those things but I don't want to scare you guys I don't want you to freak out and think oh my gosh something bad is going to happen to Shelby we're not at that point with her we just got paw issues we gotta fix this paw right here and you can't really tell but it kind of goes in between her toes here too so there's a lump there and now it's growing out right here you don't like that do you it's touching my foot you have derp face I was just telling you, you have derp face so anyway long story short we're going down on Thursday so Shelby can have her MRI follow us on Instagram at Gone to the Snow Dogs and Snow Dogs Vlogs I'll probably be trying to update there as things happen that day so if you're not following us on Instagram please do also on Facebook we have a Pawdience group if you look down in the video description below there's a link to it or if you just search Gone to the Snow Dogs and Snow Dogs Vlogs on Facebook you should see our group we also have pages as well but the group is kind of a little bit more personal you guys can share things in there and stuff like that anyway that's today's video that's all we have that's it, that's today's video we wanted to update you guys here's the update, Shelby you still have fur in your eye I blew out their coats this morning since we're going down Wednesday night we'll be staying in a hotel so I've been trying to make sure to de-shedify them a little bit before we stay at a hotel we don't like to leave dog hair everywhere anyway that's it, that's the update we hope you guys enjoyed today's video again, don't feel like you have to donate Shelby's vet bills are going to get paid no matter what if you want to support it that's up to you we love you guys, we appreciate everything you do for us we appreciate all of your comments all of your kind words, all of your shares all of your support for our channels for this channel, for the dogs channel for everything we do we couldn't do the amazing things we do without you guys we love you guys we love you too Shelby what was that look? cause I said I love you? goofy ting alright you guys look at her diva I'm not looking at you alright you guys thanks for watching as always, stay positive, dream big and we will see you again soon goodbye Pawdience If you love our Huskies come along for the ride all you have to do is hit 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