Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling... Down, Down.
Buster has a bump on his wrist (?). It's the joint closest to his paw. Of course, it's his right front paw. So, he has the torn ACL on the back right paw. When both legs on one side suck, it just doesn't work well. We took him to the Vet today. He thinks it's a tumor. (It's noht a tumah!) It looks as though it's grown INSIDE of the bone there. The X-ray showed a cloudy part to the bone there, where the rest of the bones are a milky white and solid looking. After pondering for a second after the X-ray viewing, he decided to stick a thermometer up Buster's butt. He is running a low grade fever of 103.5. I guess dogs' high end is 102. Now he is wondering if it is maybe just a bone infection. He's on antibiotics just in case. We see the oncologist vet on Friday for chemotherapy anyway. The normal vet has digitized his X-rays and sent them along. I should ask if he'll email them to me. That seems like a cool thing to have. Sorry, I'm typing in train of thought instead of formally. I'm pretty torn up about this.
OH MY GOD. This dog doesn't deserve this end. If it's a tumor, there's a different kind of chemo you can try. I just don't think we're going to do it. We'll continue with the original chemo if it's just an infection, but if it's another cancer.... I don't think it's right to do double chemo rounds on a dog that's so old and is VERY upset about hobbling.
I know many people have MUCH larger problems. It just hurts to know that he's going to go probably sooner than I'd thought. Sooner than the oroginal, magical 13 months. I hate change. I hate saying goodbye. Even more than that, I HATE that his life is ending this way.
OH MY GOD. This dog doesn't deserve this end. If it's a tumor, there's a different kind of chemo you can try. I just don't think we're going to do it. We'll continue with the original chemo if it's just an infection, but if it's another cancer.... I don't think it's right to do double chemo rounds on a dog that's so old and is VERY upset about hobbling.
I know many people have MUCH larger problems. It just hurts to know that he's going to go probably sooner than I'd thought. Sooner than the oroginal, magical 13 months. I hate change. I hate saying goodbye. Even more than that, I HATE that his life is ending this way.