Some of you who follow me know my dog Bailey is my "person". When they say dog is man's best friend, I take it literally. She is my bestie! So it makes me very sad when she doesn't feel good.
Recently we discovered a softball size lump in the inside of her right rear thigh. It is like it appeared overnight. Surely it did not, but by the time we noticed it, it had grown to this size.
We got her into the veternarian yesterday and the news is not uplifting. They had to take a biopsy from it and send it off to a lab. We may not know the results for at least a week.
Until then, I am on pins and needles. If it is cancerous, which seems to be the suspicion, they said the leg will have to be removed as they said the margins will not be clean enough to get all of it.
This is better than losing her, but I feel sad because she will lose some of her ability to run and play like she used to. However, animals are very adabltable and I have seen many dogs missing a leg that do quite well and seem very happy after they recover.
With all that said, she seems to be oblivious to all this. The lump doesn't seem to bother her, it doesn't seem to cause any pain currently. Suprisngly, even for its size, it is not impacting her ability to walk or run.
So for the next week, until we get the test results, I will be a worried dog dad that is expecting the worst.
On another note, there was also a need to take one of our cats, Sassy, to the vet because her eyes had been watering and she was sneezing a lot. Seems she aquired an upper respiratory infection. They gave us some meds we are to give her until she stops sneezing.
$500USD later and I am wondering if we should take out insurance on our pets. Yeah, they have that sort of thing. With the zoo we have, it may be worth checking out. Three dogs, three cats and a tank of fish can get expensive to take care of.
BUt they are worth every cent.
Thanks for reading,
Joe
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