The start of it all……
It all started on the 2nd January 2011. It was heavy snow and I had been pulling mums friend’s children round in the snow!
The next day mum was rubbing down all my legs and giving me cuddles. She found a lump on my right shoulder. The lump seemed to be in the muscle. Mum thought I might have pulled a muscle from playing with the kids!
She took me to the vets. It all spiralled from there!
On the 11th January 2011 the vet took a biopsy and sent it off to see what it was.
14th January 2011 the results came back. Nerve sheath tumour. Mum just crumpled! She was so worried about me. The vet said he would have to send me off to a specialist to try and remove it.
I went to the specialist on the 24th January 2011. They explained it all to mum while i just sniffed about and demanding attention from every one!
I seem to remember them saying to mum that they could amputate my leg and that would remove it or they could try and remove the tumour but it may come back.
Mum spent the whole day worrying and crying and ringing everyone she could think of who knew about dogs to get advice.
She decided that to try and remove the tumour first was the best course of action.
25th January 2011 D-Day! I had my op! They managed to remove the mass and save my nerve! However they had to remove all the muscle off my shoulder and they couldn’t get clear margins so suggested I had Radio therapy just in case.
After the op I was fine no problems with walking! I think it was because the vets kept giving me cheese! I will do anything for that!
26th January 2011
Mum took me home! She was so frightened I would hurt myself or open my wound up!
16th February 2011
My first day of Radiotherapy! I had four weeks to go! It wasn’t so bad but I started to cause myself a lick granuoloma on the my good leg! It itched where they shaved me!
16th March 2011
I completed my four weeks of Radiotherapy! I had no side effects from the Radiotherapy! They had discharged me! I had to go back to my own vets in two weeks and then back to the specialist in eight weeks! Life of fun begins again!