Found out yesterday that Gerry has an enlarged sternal lymph node and for the moment they believe this is a return of adenocarcinoma that he lost his eye to two years ago. 

Today (and I wasn't even thinking about checking his lymph nodes myself, just petting him) I noticed two, equal in size, soft round balls roughly where his jaw meets his throat.  I'm just wondering am I noticing something normal that's been there all the time - tonsils maybe? - or could these be his mandibular lymph nodes inflamed as well?  Is this at all an emergency if they are?  I wasn't really paying attention as to whether the vet checked them when we were in for the x-rays yesterday.  She probably did.  Also, they gave him his lepto vaccine yesterday, so even if those are his lymph nodes, could it be a normal reaction to the vaccine?

Anyway, I'm stuck with a lot of questions swirling around my head today because Gerry's vet is off until tomorrow.  Can't decide if it's worth trying to call the oncology office myself today to try to set up an appointment with them or not.  Seems to go a lot smoother, faster if I let my vet contact them first, so I'm thinking it's worth my while to be patient.

Gerry's doing well.  The only clear change in him, which prompted me to get chest x-rays, is he doesn't walk very far without wanting to take a break and drink water.  Which, for all I know, could be more age-related than metastasis-related anyway.