I'm posting this as a helpful tip so if this happens to someone else, they don't go into a panic when they see a lump.  (like I did yesterday! Shout out to Diane for answering my distress email!)

I have posted many times, I never worry about Comet's good remaining leg but much to my surprise I guess the hopping for years on end can take a little toll.  She rapidly developed a cyst that I noticed yesterday.  I did notice it a couple of months ago, but I thought a small ant bit her since the bump went down by the next day.  I was cheering because I didn't rush her to the vet and it went away on its own within 24 hours. But then it came back yesterday.

It's a blood filled steril cyst (or that's what the vet thinks).  He ruled out a foxtail and concluded it was probably from the pressure or bacteria on the bottom of her paw and it pushed out on the top of her paw almost between her toes. We don't know for sure but he took a needle to it and it seemed to be just syrupy blood with no puss.  She's on antibiotics anyway for her neck disc infection – so nothing was done to it except the lancing. 

It doesn't seem to hurt her at all.  If it doesn't go down, which it hasn't today – we'll have it washed but I hate to put her under.

And now for the pics which was taken after the lancing so it is a bit smaller:

The last one is my precious angel sleeping under my desk this morning – you can see the sore. 

Poor Comet.  Hope it heals quickly and causes no pain.

Tazzie had a cyst like this on her remaining front foot and when it flared up I would soak her foot in Epsom salts for 5 minutes twice daily and she would wear her bootie during the day to help protect the bottom of her foot.

Wow!  I'm actually relieved!  I got my second opinion (since the first one was a little iffy)!  Thanks Pam!

Jerry, maybe the nice photo was my sleeping angel???

I'm  not talking to Comet, Looking at Comet, but I'm not ignoring her either.  ;)

 

Then she will get along with you just fine!

These cysts are very common in four-legged dogs of certain breeds

 

She's an afghan hound according to her DNA results!  HAHAHAHA   If she is, she a very, very deformed little girl at 38lbs!

Thanks for the insight, Pam - my vet was kinda talking mumbo jumbo and not doctor talk either!  It seemed like he couldn't make up his mind but did say something like an ingrown hair, pimple without infection or a this or a that.  The steril cyst and NOT CANCER is all what got out of it.  And when he was squeezing it (like a pimple), he said he was hoping hair or something would come out.  Nada.

Thanks guys – you're the bestest!!