On July 09 Kelly turned 14. We had a couple of nasty looking masses taken off of her a week before and the results came back on her birthday - it was a particularly nasty cancer called hemangiosarcoma. The vet pretty much had her written off right then and there but we held out some hope for her. The particular form of it that she has was dermal (in the skin) and the x-rays didn't show anything inside, which was good news (it shocked the vet). In the past two weeks she's gone on chemo (not the incredibly nasty type that we humans get but much milder) and she has about ten masses on her now. Two of them are pretty bad looking (one on her gums by her right canine and one by her belly thats about 1" in diameter). The good news is that they don't seem to be getting any bigger but the bad news is that shes getting more of them. There were four or five of them this time last week.
Kelly is still acting like herself albeit a bit slower these days (hey, if you were as old as she is you'd slow down a bit too). Actually she just rests more but when she gets active she still runs around like she always did. We're updating the website to include a section just of her.
Susie got a new job in the school system out here - she's now what they call a Sped-Tech (Special Education Technician) and it's more in line with what she wants to do.
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