by elsietee » Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:32 am
From FB:
Sivo Racing Kennel - Joar Leifseth Ulsom
It’s Monday morning. I woke up to a bunch of texts and emails from worried friends and family - wondering why Joar is stopped there on the trail when he just had a pretty long rest.
Do not fear- All is well.
Joar is in a little cabin between Unalakleet and Shaktoolik. There are 10 teams holed up in Shak which usually means a storm/high winds on the coast so he felt resting where it is quieter and out of the wind was wise. We all know Joar loves a good storm and excels in hard conditions- but not with this baby team.
We DO need thoughts, prayers and healing wishes for Emmelou’s recovery.
Emmelou is one of the originals that Joar brought from Norway- she ran many races in lead with Joar, is Jæger’s mom and has become guardian of Henrik.
Since Joar left on trail, she had developed abdominal distention and so I took her to work to ultrasound her abdomen and found ascites and a pretty big tumor. Upon taking her to surgery, that tumor turned out to be wrapping around her gall bladder and infiltrating an entire lobe of her liver. It was removed but that’s not an easy surgery to recover from. So far she has been eating well and in good spirits but…we have a few more days (3 to be exact) until we are feeling out of the woods!
So please send your love to Emmelou.
She is truly a wonderful soul
Thank you to the team at VCA Big Lake for helping me though this surgery - I’m sure it isn’t easy to run anesthesia on a compromised patient when it’s the surgeon’s husband’s dog.
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elsietee AT ponyhill DOT org
Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, CA
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