Well it has been a stressful week. Last Monday Jack was out front doing his favorite thing...chasing his ball. On the last throws of the day you could tell that he did something to his right back leg....pulled a muscle or something. I wasn't to worried about it, but it doesn't seems to have gotten better, not worse but not better. Everything worries me these days. He still acts great, running, tail wagging, etc....but my doubts are there. Then my worst fear and something I really wasn't prepared for, I was petting his stomach Thursday night and to my horror found a growth about the size of a dime...it was black and hard but still could be moved around. I was blown away as I had never read anything about malignant melanoma in dogs spreading on the outside, only the inside (the oncologist agrees that this is not normal). I took him in to his holistic vet Friday afternoon and they did a needle aspiration. It looked suspicious and aggressive, but of course they can't tell me for sure what it is. :-( He is scheduled for surgery Monday morning but I want them to check out his back legs first. I have no idea if it is even related but if something is going on with his legs/hips....then I'm not sure if I even want to put him thru another surgery. This has hit me hard as I have prepared myself for every step of this "process" as well as I could but this I was not prepared for and it just wasn't what I was expecting.
We have a vacation to the beach planned in one week and I'm so ready to just go with him and my daughter and just relax and enjoy each other's company.
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