So we got a fine needle aspirate test on the lump on the side of her neck.  We will see what's up with that.  Hopefully it's nothing, but it's awfully hard.  It'd be weird for fibrosarcoma tho since it's so far from her original site and as far as we could tell from x-rays it hadn't metastasized. 

As for her new limp, it looks like she pulled a muscle or something similar.  There is swelling up by her shoulder.  We suspect she landed wrong, or, she has a habit of falling off of things and pulling herself back up with her front legs.... We could see how that might have gone a bit wrong.  So she got a three day shot of her old friend buprenex and we're hoping we can get her to eat some wet food with cat-ibuprofen in it (pill shooters do NOT work for her) to help take the swelling down.  She's high as a kite but seems to be feeling better, has even been up and around a little bit.

So she might be fine.  🙂  We're hopeful.

Sadly it's not good news.  The cancer is back and this time it has metastasized.  She's breathing hard and hiding all the time.  The vet said she might live another week this way, but it's no life...  We're having a vet come to the house today to put her to sleep.  Fortunately, the weather (and I live in Seattle, so appreciate how miraculous this is) decided to coorperate this afternoon and it was not only sunny, but the sun was WARM.  So we spent about four hours in the back yard in the grass until it was just too cold.  In about two hours it will all be over and I'm...well, you can imagine.  But...she doesn't want to go but she also seems to be resigned to the fact that her body is not giving her a choice.  So, I guess I have to be too.

Some last pics for you of our beautiful girl enjoying herself today.

Thank you so much for all your support during this time.  It meant a lot to me.