Hello Everyone!  I have been on here before, but got locked out of my old email address and had to create a new username to get back.  Today is Sully's ONE YEAR AMPUVERSARY!  We are surely celebrating all of the wonderful time we have had with him that we didn't expect to get.  I did think that I would be celebrating today differently, as Sully is currently at the vet being put under for x-rays.

On Tuesday, Sully started yelping in pain every time he moved his neck.  This has happened once before as he has pinched a nerve or pulled a muscle because of his gait (he lost his front right leg).  The pain seemed to get worse and then Tuesday night we noticed a hard lump and some swelling along his scar, by his ribcage.  We are wracking our brains trying to remember if he fell and injured himself, cracked a rib, but of course the first place our minds go is that it is a tumor.

Yesterday we took Sully in for some preliminary x-rays and the vet (not our regular vet) said that his lungs looked good (we will get more specifics today).  After a whole year, we will consider that a HUGE win!!  But she couldn't get a good look at the lump without having him on his back which he would not allow.  So today he is going under sedation and being looked at by our regular vet, and we are waiting for answers.

We were told yesterday that it could be a piece of bone, which sounds fixable with a less invasive procedure, but of course at 2am I am awake googling.  I just keep asking myself, if it is a tumor, what do we do?  Do we put him through another surgery?  After Sully's amputation, my husband and I decided not to do chemo.  We wanted him to have quality, pain-free time how ever long or short that was.  My natural reaction is I want to fix it, but I can't "fix" cancer. I guess we will wait to hear the results, but I'm reaching out to all of you for positive thoughts and prayers today that maybe its something simple and that either way we'll know what decisions to make when the time comes.