Don't Keep Me In Stitches

We hads a bizzy, bizzy day today!

I was off to the V-E-T to get my stitches OUT!  WOO HOO!  Sydney, she come along coz we both has appointments with the chiropractor after.

I used to do this in the old Mazda hikemobile but in the 1 1/2 years we has had my Zoobaru, I had nefur co-piloted like this but today I did and I whimpered fur mom to DRIVE FASTER.  I want these stitches OUT!

It also made mom happy I did this coz she sayed it be like old time but KNOCK OFF THE WHIMPERING.  Boo.

Common V-E-T.  Hurry!

More waiting ...

DONE!

We hads an hour to kill afore our chiropractor appointments so went to this place.

Furst a drink of cool water mom bringed fur us.

See, in the olden days the peeps what lived here had collies and the collies, they is all buried here.  Lots and lots of collies  This be Lad's grave.

It do say LAD ~ THOROUGHBRED IN BODY AND SOUL ~ 1902 - 1918.  OMD, he be an old geezer!

That be the peeps and their collies ofur there in the olden days.

We gots to walk around the grounds.  They like dogs to come here to visit and it be a small place so that be good fur Sydney coz she cannot do walkies furry much now.

Here do be anudder grave.

Lots of graves!  All of those long rawks be markers fur collie graves.

See that frog statue?  That be fur a frog what lived in a pond here for 20 years!

Hey mom, so not funny!  Let us out of the kennel!

We went to the gazebo at the lake and had some more cool water.

Then we rested in the cool breezes.

I watched some cormorants ofur in the lake.

Look how close that bird got to me!  I is the bird whisperer, BOL.

Sydney hasing a good time.

OMD, a Great Blue Heron by our car!

Then we be off to Mike's Feed Farm fur our chiropractor appointments.

My stitches is all gone, my V-E-T sayed all looks good, watch out werld, I is baaaaaaack and be hitting the trails again soon!

My Test Results

Furstly I want to thank you all for POTP and your purrs and woofs and good wishes coz even though it not be all good news, it be good enuff fur me and you all HELPED!  Thank YOU!

So the results do come back from the biopsy of my lumpy bumpies. I has to draw you a picture.

So the lumpy bumpy on my chest what we knows be a mast cell tumor be like this AND the lumpy bumpy on my belleh what we thought was nuttin be one of these too!  (The lumpy bumpy on my thigh what we thought was bad was nuttin.)  So the V-E-T cut the lumpy bumpies out and sent them to the labradoratory to be biggified and this be what they look like biggified.  The margin be the line where the V-E-T cutted the lumpy bumpy out and the Big C is supposed to stay inside the margin and it did not, it escaped.  So that means the Big C still be inside me.  If'n it had stayed inside the margin, then I would be cured.  But now I is not.  Howefur, the labradoratory peeps sayed the Big C be the slow spreading kind so they guestimates I can live anudder 70 months.  I would be 19 years old, BOL.  But seriously, the V-E-T say I should live my natural lifespan without the Big C doing me in.  The only problem do be more lumpy bumpies popping up.  We does not want to keep making me go unner the knife so we might do medicines if'n that happens.  But no chemo or radiations, NO NO NO!  I would not like that.  At all.  The V-E-T do be speaking to an oncologist about it.

The big bummer do be that today be the most bootious day with cool airs from Canada and lots of sunbeams and I could not go hiking :( :( :(.  And I told mom she better not sneak out without me coz I would know!  She did not coz I keeped my eyes on her and I made her do yard werks instead.

Catching some sunbeams - it be OK coz I not let the sunbeams see my nekkid spots or I get red and burned.

"I is watching you mom.  No sneaking out."

I commed inside to nap and left Sydney in charge of watching mom.

Taking her job furry seriously.

Back to werking on recofurry.  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.  Pee Ess - this soft not-fur-swimming collah do make a comfy pillow :)

Old Geezer Stuff

One last fur wetting on Furiday in Pencilvania before going unner the knife and being out of commission fur a couple of weeks.

So today was the day I wented unner the knife at the V-E-T to remove my lumpy bumpy that do be a mast cell tumor.  The V-E-T thought she should take off a harmless lumpy bumpy on my belleh while she was at it.  Can we goes three fur three here?  Sure!  While in the waiting room mom do be gibbing me scritches and she found anudder lumpy bumpy on my thigh!  So I has a Frankenchest, Frankenabs and Frankenthigh.

OK, so we has to back up a minit.  The V-E-T taked pictures of my innards to be sure my lungs was clear and they was.  But you know what she found?

That Arthur Itis be in my neck and spine too!

The V-E-T do not know how I can hike with Arthur Itis all ofur my innards, but I do it :)  So after cutting me up, when it be time to wake up, the V-E-T lets my mom sit with me coz I do freak out big time if'n I wake up and my mom do not be there.  The V-E-T taked this picture.

So now we be waiting fur the biopsy results but I is feeling OK right now and I be werking on healing up.

The V-E-T

Me and my sis Sydney was due fur our visit with the V-E-T (YIKES!) but with me being 13 years old and Sydney 13, mebbe 14, things do be starting to go wonky with us so it was not just a wellness visit but a lumpy bumpy (me) and gimpy owie (Syd) visit.

All excited thinking we is going to the chiropractor - NOT!  Honest mistake - Sydney has been going to my chiropractor with me coz she do be limping around all wonky now.

Hey, the V-E-T stole my sis!  BRING HER BACK!  I was furry upset ofur this unexpected occurence.

I waited and worried and did not let that door where Sydney disappeared out of my sight.

She do finally be back.  Her pictures showed that the Arthur Itis gotted her BIG TIME.  The V-E-T say it do not be pritty inside Sydney.  Sigh.  We is going to try Tramadol fur the pains coz Syndey cannot take Rimadyl or Deramaxx coz it do rip up her innards.  Sydney might get Adequan needles like me but we is seeing if Tramadol helps furstly.

Telling mom all about how they took pictures of the innards of her legs.  The vet tech told mom Sydney do be smooching them to death while they be taking pictures of her innards.  And I was so worried why?

And me, well the V-E-T sticked me with a BIG NEEDLE and stole part of the lumpy bumpy on my chest.  This do be a new lumpy bumpy that mom thought be an icky ticky at furst but it was not and in two weeks it got furry much bigger.  Turns out it do be a Mast cell tumor and I has to get cutted open so the V-E-T can steal it.  That be happening on June 9 so we will not know how bad this do be until after the lab peeps take a look at the lumpy bumpy.

In the meantime I be resting up coz going to the V-E-T do be exhausting.

Looks like getting pictures of your innards and smooching the techs to death be exhausting, too.

Memorial Day Weekend Hike

Hi furrends!  I did the most pawsome Memorial Day weekend hike in Noo York full of rawks and falling waters and seeniks so I just has to show you.

Comes along and let's get started.

This was a furry pretty forest with lots of rawks and the trail went up and up and up and up....

So we hads to take lots of breaks.  Mom was a huffin' and a puffin', BOL!

I can jumps the logs early on but later in the hike when I gets tired mom has to help me with my lifting harness or I falls flat on my snooter :(

Look how steep down it do be to the falling waters way down there.

We finally got close enuff to the waters fur me to wet my furs.  Ahhhhhh.

OK now you has to close your eyeballs coz mom be doing the hiker striptease.  She got really hot with all the climbing and I dunno why she do not get in the waters with  me.  Instead she be taking her long britches off and putting shorts on.  OK, she be done, you can open you eyeballs now.

Time fur anudder break.  (Note the skeery white legs we can now all see for the furst time this year. Skeery.)  Anyways, as you can see, I is clearly asking fur my chickun jerkey while avoiding the glare of the skeery white legs.

Wah lah.

We can takes our break in the middle of the trail coz there be nobuddy else around.

Now let's get going again.

At the top after climbing fur THREE miles I had to put mom on the walking string coz we be coming to the seeniks where there be lots of peeps coz they can drive their cars up.

See, cars and peeps and dogs all ofur the place.

Check out this rawk!

And here we has the seeniks.  Wowser!

Hey!  Peeps be crashing my seeniks!  Let's move on to anudder place.

Me and mom has been here before so we knows seekrit places and there be nobuddy here at this seenik.

We leaved them all behind ofur there, BOL.

The peeps is still there as we be heading back down.

More peeps and more dogs going up.

We stopped at the visitor center fur a last break and fur mom to put some litter in that green recycling bin ofur there.  We picked it up at the seeniks GRRRRRRR.

And sumbuddy did not pick up their dog poo.  GRRRRR  We cleaned it up coz udderwise they stop allowing dogs at these places and it be all the peeps fault.  They should stop allowing litter bugs and peeps what cannot pick up their dog poos.

Ahhh, back into the woods where there be no crowds of peeps and litterbugs.

I be feeling the need fur some fur wetting again.  See, I is getting tired.  It be a lot of hiking fur a 13-year-old Shawnee!  At least it all be downhill now back to the hikemobile.

Sweet!

I do beleef the waters be sizzling as I get my furs wet.

I could see the Catskill Mountains from the trail going back down.

Almost back at the car.  What a pawsome hike we had!

Sam's Point Reserve, NY - South Gully Trail at EveryTrail