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08-31-2006, 04:27 PM
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LITF update.....
http://www.timwoolleyracing.com/news/
Posted August 31, 2006 Update 573: Jeannine Edwards has just spoken with Greg Gilchrist, Lost in the Fog's trainer. She sent me this e-mail: Just spoke to Greg Gilchrist... Lost In The Fog is being examined and having his ultrasounds as I write this. They are scanning him to see if there has been any reduction at all in the size of the tumors. Greg seemed hopeful, albeit realistic, that there may be some options for Foggy. He said by this time next month... NEXT MONTH...they would have a better idea of whether or not Foggy is going to make it. That's a whole lot better than the "2 weeks to live" we heard 10 days ago. Greg said Foggy has gained some weight back, they are feeding him smaller meals 4 times a day, and when I asked what his daily routine is, Greg said "Whatever he feels like doing." They walk him, take him out for grass, take him near the track to watch training, give him baths, etc. He said right now the horse seems happy and perky, and because of the cancer treatment options available to humans, they are hopeful of being able to try something on Foggy. The problem is that cancer is very rare in equines, and so the treatment data is relatively obscure. Perhaps Foggy will become the "poster horse" for successful cancer treatment. Greg said he will give me an update on the ultrasound findings tomorrow. Last edited by my miss storm cat : 08-31-2006 at 04:30 PM. 
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08-31-2006, 04:34 PM
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Thanks for the update.
My experiences with the cancer victims in my family and with friends is all bad. They will look like they are getting better then WHAM you get the punch in the gut. I really hope LITF can stay happy and healthy for a long long time.
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09-01-2006, 05:51 PM
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From BH.....
Chemotherapy Next for Champ Lost in the Fog by Jack Shinar Lost in the Fog, champion sprinter of 2005, will begin chemotherapy treatments for his cancer at the University of California at Davis next week, trainer Greg Gilchrist said Sept. 1. The process could last for as long as five months. Gilchrist, during a brief teleconference from Golden Gate Fields, said the hope is that chemotherapy can put the 4-year-old colt's lymphoma into remission and give the horse as much as two years of quality life. "It would have to be a miracle for Lost in the Fog to be cured," Gilchrist said. "This is something that puts it into remission and allows him to go on." Gilchrist, along with owner Harry Aleo, were disappointed to learn earlier in the day that Lost in the Fog's tumors had not shrunk in size since the horse began treatment with injections of the corticosteroid Dexamethasone 10 days ago. "Doctors came down from the university Thursday to do a scan," he said. "Nothing had changed. Nothing had gotten any smaller. Nothing had gotten any larger." Aleo and Gilchrist made the decision on chemotherapy on the advice of Dr. Gary Magdesian, UCD's chief of equine medicine. He told them that it was unlikely that Lost in the Fog would derive any benefit from further use of the steroid, which if effective enough on Lost in the Fog's football-sized tumors, could have made surgery a possibility. "We've come to another cross in the road. They feel that we were doing isn't really helping that much," Gilchrist said. "He could have two, three, four months (to live) with what we are doing right now. There are always exceptions, of course, when you are dealing with something like this. But with chemotherapy it could be as much as two years." The treatment at UC Davis would consist of up to six treatments, if they prove successful, three weeks apart. Because cancer in horses is considered rare, Gilchrist said, the treatment "is pretty experimental." He said that if midway through the process, it is determined that chemotherapy isn't helping, they would stop. "Horses don't suffer the same side effects (from chemotherapy) that people do," he said. "With horses, they pretty much get over it in a day and move on." In the meantime, Lost in the Fog "is in very good spirits," Gilchrist said, although he has lost a little weight because they haven't been feeding him as much as they did when he was in training. "His quality of life is good right now. If you just walked up to him, you wouldn't know there was anything wrong with him. I don't think he's being affected by anything going on around him or within him." Gilchrist said he takes Lost in the Fog out of his stall every morning for about 30 minutes to graze, and for about 30 minutes in the evening when he has time. They often walk to a spot where the popular colt with the oddball blaze can scan the track. "You can tell he knows where he's at because he kind of picks his head up," the trainer said.
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09-09-2006, 09:56 AM
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Hybrid Mode
