Zip went to oncologist today and had scans and an aspiration. Lungs were clear as was everything but the spleen. Was told that it is a met from the osteosarcoma. Very rare for it to show up in the spleen first. She will have her spleen removed on Thursday if the other slides show nothing else, and a new chemo but unfortunately one that can damage the heart and she already has heart problems that we watch but don't really slow her down. Prayers and good thoughts that it will be contained in the spleen and not be anywhere else especially the abdomen. We are grateful it has happened on an organ that can be removed and very grateful for early detection once more. A call to Dr. Loops will be made soon to see what else we can do that we are not already doing. Then I have to deal with another dog with possible cushings. When it rains.....

So grateful to all of you other "family members" for listening to me and sending good wishes. It helps not to walk/hop this path alone.

Zip has just finished with her surgery. The spleen came out without problem and she did well while under. There were no other visible mets and they also took a liver and bile sample to check on them. I know it is the invisible that can get you but let me take a moment to live in the minute and enjoy this and list a couple of blessings we found along the way. All of you who have cared to write a quick note and think about Zip are at the top next would be that this scan that found the met was done monthly and not every other month thanks to her cardiologist, she had 8 months since amputation to get her blood finally at good levels again and to be physically strong and it went to a very rare but removable site, the spleen and if we had stopped the chemo after 6 treatments, she was at 10 we would have thought we stopped too soon and not that the carboplatin was  no longer effective which is why we are going to something else. Some may say we are stretching it a bit to call these blessings but we are counting big blessings and small and are grateful for another day to play with our tripawd! Now on to a full recovery with no complications. If you can have an ampawversary can you have a spleampuversary? I can even get the spelling to make sense guess I am high on joy right now. Frozen yogurt for all!