Family Fuller

This would be one of those days.

I took Sevi to the vet with Colin over the weekend for her yearly vaccinations, and asked them to take a look at a lump that had formed on her left hind foot. The vet took a quick look at the sample while we were there and said it very well might be cancerous, but that they’d have to send it out for analysis.

And so of course I deluded myself into thinking that she would be okay. Sad to say that’s not the case - they called today with the results, and Sevi has a cancerous tumor. So something both Jess and I should have been prepared for somehow took us off guard (thanks denial). Even more sadly, it’s inoperable - or rather the operation to remove it would be so risky that their advice was to continue with the denial - Jess said they actually called it “benign denial” - and just make sure she’s a super happy dog. The silver lining is that they simply can’t predict how these things will grow, and there’s every possibility that she’ll simply live with it for a good long time…I think this time we’ll just expect the worse, tinged with the hope that she’ll be fine. Luckily she gets to go to Block Island in less than 2 weeks, for 10 days of fun in a spectacular place for dogs.

I’m sure she’s going to know something’s up when she realizes how many more treats she’s getting.

Too soon.

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