Around 6 weeks ago I found a lump on my 13 year old dogs chest, it was about 1-2 inches wide and it was a lumpy mass, my heart sank and I was immediately concerned about what it might be.
I took her to the vet and the vet found a further 3 small lumps dotted around (she's very fluffy so they were hard to find). She recommended an aspirate of the lumps and I was devastated when my worst fears were confirmed and the results came back as being positive for cancerous cells.
The vet recommend surgery to remove the tumors along with a biopsy of them to find out what we were dealing with. So she had her surgery about 2 weeks ago and I spent the whole day feeling sick with worry, but fortunately it all went really well and I was able to bring her home that evening.
She was quite distressed after the surgery and I felt like I'd made the wrong decision to put her through such a big operation at her age but she recovered quite quickly and she's been coming on leaps and bounds ever since.
Today I had a call from the vet to say that 1 of her lumps was benign, 1 was a mixture of carsinoma and benign cells, and 2 were carcinoma but they are really confident that it hasn't spread, that they got good margins and that she has a really good chance that it won't come back.
She means the world to me, she's been by my side through so many things over the past 13 years and I absolutely adore her. I cried such happy tears to hear that my girl has a good chance. I just really wanted to share the news with someone 😁