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I can’t help it – I’m a paranoid Pyr-mom!!! I went to brush Denali’s remaining rear leg and what did I do but feel a lump. My heart sank big time, so I started running around looking for my phone not sure who to call… I stepped over Loki twice all panicked… then I realized “Loki is a dog… and he has 2 rear legs” and I bent down and felt his legs… he has the same bumps in both legs Denali has — WHEW! Denali’s “leg bumps” seem bigger, but it could be (and probably is) my imagination – she’s got a vet appointment Friday with her new physical therapist, so I will ask him all about it. I know, I know – I’m overly paranoid and I can’t stop worrying about the bumps… they’re right above where the dew claws are and anatomy pictures show them there too.
After all this – Loki gave me a heart attack too. He’s been overly drooly lately and the fur under his chin is drool stained. I noticed some mats in it so I grabbed my mat breaker brush and went after the mat – well… all the hair came out to reveal red-irritated skin (probably a yeast infection). I have a few ideas of OTC creams I can try to clean his chin up.
Aw, you’re having a tough time! I think once we’ve hit certain stress levels our base line just goes higher and it doesn’t take nearly as much to set off the alarm bells and our hearts hiccuping.
If Denali and Loki are anything like my Catie and Riley, when I have any kind of panicky intake of breath and start madly dashing around the house for any reason, they simply watch me with sublimely patient tolerance from their comfy reclining positions. I continue to work hard to take my cues from them. 🙂 Hope your vet can allay your fears and poor Loki’s skin irritation clears up.
Ditto on Carment’s post! We just get on overload sometimes with all of this worry. So you are not alone – we’ve all been there. I look back at all the times I panicked during Mackenzie’s recovery only to realize that if I had it to do over again, I might be more calm, less worried and just go with the flow – but in reality most likely not! I’d probably still worry about all the same things I worried about then. I think it’s in a tripawds pawrents DNA to worry. So try not to worry too much right now (much easier said than done – I speak from experience.)
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I love it when my worries and fusses over me! I mean, really what else has she got to do but worry over me?! I should be and am the most important thing in her life!
I have a paw pimple and you should have seen her when she saw it! She has cancer on the brain! The downside for me is, the vet said she could lance it if got big again! YIKES! I hide it now! My mom was so relieved that it was a paw pimple but I know how she likes to pop pimples and now I’m the one nervous!
-Comet
we sure understand – but remember that ‘fear is a stealer of joy’. finding that balance is like standing on the razor’s edge. if it wasn’t for charon’s over-zealous noticing of my small swelling on my wrist, i don’t think my cancer would have been found as soon….and who knows. so, just keep doing what you’re doing, and know that when in doubt…just love on them even more!!!
gayle & charon