LexOctober192010

On October 19th, 2010 my best friend Lex had his right leg amputated- I was devastated, but now I realize- EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK! Here is his ‘background’ story (in a nutshell)!
In July of last year, Lex and his brother Zen went to the groomer. Lex is normally very fluffy (he is a husky-sheltie mix), and in the summer we always get his fur shaved off. When we brought Lex home, I noticed that Lex had a very large bump on his right hock- it was about the size of a golf ball, perhaps a bit bigger (yes, I was very angry that the groomer failed to mention it to me). I immediately called the vet and made an appointment. The vet recommended that we remove the ‘bump’ and have it analyzed- we complied.

Turns out that the bump was cancer. I could not stop beating myself up…how long was the bump there? why didn’t I notice it before? The truth is, I will never know how long the bump was there- it could have developed very quickly or maybe it was there for a while. We will never know – I had to move on!

The cancer was removed at the end of July- we had x-rays done on Lex, it did not look like the cancer had spread anywhere else. We prayed that it would never return, but it did.