-- I'm sorry for the on screen crying, I know its cringy. Like I said in the video, please let me know if you have ever experienced this, and what worked/didnt work to prolong your dogs expectancy. Thanks...
The speaker shares the heartbreaking news that his 11-year-old dog, Scout, has been diagnosed with stage four lymphoma. Despite a prognosis of only a few weeks, the speaker is determined to prolong Scout's life through a combination of medical treatment, a strict specialized diet, and supplements, while asking his community for advice and support.
Hey guys, thanks for tuning in today should have been episode two
of the hut me building that shelter out in the front with Scout
But as you probably can tell from the title got some really bad news
Scout got diagnosed with lymphoma
Yesterday and they gave him weeks. They said they're hoping for weeks
His glands are really swollen
in its neck like really big
and I thought he had a bacterial
or like a viral infection
infection, because the dog next door was sick,
come here bud, I got something for you, come
here, the dog next door was sick, and he's been,
I saw him eating her poop and licking
her and stuff, here's a part of a deer liver for him,
there you go bud, good boy, stay
here, stay here please, anyways,
so I thought he was sick from that, I did some research
It was either he had lymphoma or he had a bacterial,
fungal, viral type infection
from licking her, from eating the poo,
and I thought it was just swollen glands.
My concern was that he couldn't breathe
because for a few days I had been hearing him have trouble breathing,
like really gasping for air and making a lot of noise,
like his esophagus is getting pushed on, which it is.
So I brought him to the vet thinking, ah,
I'll get some antibiotics, everything will be fine.
eat it up buddy and they told me probably
the worst news i've one of the worst news i've ever
had been told in my life hold
on bud hold on anyways we're
hopeful um he's on prednisone
right now for it's like a steroid for his um i don't know
for how to help his breathing maybe
i'm not really sure uh or to just slow it down
but also we're gonna get him on chemo i know i
know i said i would never do it but it's not um radiation
or anything like that it's like a low
form of chemo he's got lymphomas in his lungs like there's
no um there's no surgery that can
get back up for a sec buddy back up for a sec there's
no surgery that can fix it or anything
like that it's it's just it's he's sick stage
four type thing like it's it happened overnight
it seemed man i swear i pet him all the time like under
his in his throat and behind his ears and
everything that's where they're like golf ball sizes like it's
so big it's so big in his neck
and his ears and his legs they knew right away
at the at the vet they started talking about lymphoma
right away and but he still got i i left him there
they tested him i don't understand you know what
i mean he's healthy he's been healthy
his whole life he's 11 healthy his whole life the healthiest
dog going he's still got a spring
in his step he's running around here like a fool like like nothing's
changed at all and they say he has weeks we just
got up here he's lived here for like a month and
a half he lived in windsor for so long
the crappiest life going for a dog we just get up
here and now he's gonna keel over it's just i don't know
is that irony is it just it's just
this is bullshit like anyways
so with a combination of that chemo
and a better diet and some pills so
we've got um milk thistle we've
got arginine fish oil there's
a couple other i have it written down
it's in my pocket but a little tied up at the moment
and a high-fat no carb
diet I guess the carbs are what
the bad things stick to so he's eating deer
liver right now i've got salmon
and broccoli and red cabbage and is that
enough maybe that's enough liver for now anyways
and red cabbage and fish oil and
the ground beef ground pork all
that stuff i'm just gonna be making his food
from now on and with that they said
that some dogs that some of the dogs that
respond to the chemo uh the chemo can you can get
a few more months out of them or whatever so like
that's really cool i hope that that's the case i want
to ask you guys seriously please if you've
had a dog that had lymphoma and you you prolonged
his life a little bit what did you do or if you're
a vet and you know of another thing i should
be doing oh i'll tell you that the pills specifically
right now so that we're all on the same page
this is really really important guys this is my bud you
know what i mean like i had cold
emerald it's one of the worst things
man japanese mushroom extract
green tea extract arginine fish oil milk thistle
for his liver no carbs high fat that's what i'm
doing as well as the the type of chemo that isn't bad
for his heart um and i do it once every every
once every week i believe maybe once every three weeks i'm not 100
but this is a blow man like
I was even saying in videos
I knew he was going to have another couple years
On his life
Living up here
He goes, he hangs out with the dogs
He runs around, we're out here
He's eating snow left and right
Loving life
Way more than he has for the past 10 years
9 years of his life
It just caught
me off guard
I thought I was going to go in there
They were going to give me antibiotics for him
He was going to be his old self
We were going to be out building that hut
We're out here where he wants to be
We went on a long walk today
this is his favorite place around
and um you can bet your butt that i'm going to be spoiling him
i'm going to be um not with the food the food
is is a strict well it's all meat it will be spoiled
just strict with the type of food
but like he's gonna be getting walks he's gonna be doing whatever
he wants to do i've been getting up early with him past couple days
and hiking and yesterday and
today at least he's healthy like he's running
around he's he's lost a lot of weight but you
know he's not acting sick
I'm sorry that there is no episode of the hut today,
but he's way more important than the YouTube video
And I just need to let you guys know what's going on,
and I really really really want your help
I really if you if someone has some miracle
Hippie here. I don't care what it sounds like please
tell me please tell me I'm not going to let him suffer
He's not in pain now. I talked to the vet. I've done ton of research
I don't research things and I'm researching this like crazy
because it's a member of my family man
I don't care if you know if you don't believe me
or know the way it feels or whatever
But like this dog was in my first YouTube video this dog protected
my daughter from a American Bulldog attacking her
He took the brunt of it and ripped his face all open.
He's made me who I am
I don't go out
I wouldn't have gone out half the times
when I first started without him without his his his incentive like the
the drive of saying okay I want to take
my dog out you know like he's been a huge huge part of
my life for 11 years
and I feel very bad that I didn't catch this sooner but it seemed like
it seemed like it happened like overnight like I swear
to god I pet him all under here
up and behind his ears it's
so big right now anyways sorry
for crying I uh excuse me I really
love my dog and I really he's eating
that more liver I really want to prolong his life as long
as possible, please help me do that. Thank you.