twinmaker
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I know this is a heart forum but the last couple of days have been hard ones for me and just wanted to talk with some friends. Our almost 6 year old yellow Lab, Abby started to limp on Tuesday night out of the blue. She had limped two or three other times over the last 4 months but only for a day or so and after overexercising. We chalked it up to overdoing it as she is somewhat of a couch potato. When I checked her leg and paw on Tues. evening she appeared to have a second nail growing under her regular nail. I made an appointment with the vet on Wednesday morning and didn't feel Abby since I felt they would need to sedate her to remove this second nail. Within thirty minutes of leaving her at the vet, the vet called and wanted to do x-rays and a biopsy. It appears Abby has bone cancer. It's in her little toe. They amputated her toe and a nearby lymph node that was swollen. The lymph node contains atypical cells but we won't know what kind or the results of the biopsy on her toe until late next week. I realize that if this is Osteosarcoma then things are really bad. I've been crying off and on since Wednesday. Abby has battled Chronic Active Hepatitis and has overcome that only for this to happen. She's just so young. Anyway, I seem to cope so much better with my own health problems and don't get nearly this upset, but when it comes to my pet, it's a different story. Hope you don't mind me sharing all this. LINDA