Mostly figured I'd post something on here for a handful of people that would want to know about it.

But as some people know back in December/January he got lyme disease. Though at the time I wasn't sure exactly what was going on. It was about when we started to get actual cold weather and he was going on 14, so I figured it was the cold finally getting to him. At the same time I was having major issues with my vehicle and there was no way I would have been able to get him to the vet to find out at the moment.

So fast forward a few months after that and I was just barely able to get him to the vet to get checked out. This was pretty much the point where my vehicle was dying and I was just able to get there and back. But yeah unfortunately his blood test came back positive for lyme disease. At which point he got pills to take care of it and it did it's job at least to a degree. Unfortunately the pills were incredibly hard on his system, to the point where during the last week he was barely eating anything because of how they were making him feel. And it took about a week for him to finally get back to a normal eating schedule. I really wanted to quit giving him those pills at one point, but I knew I had to keep giving them to him otherwise his condition could get worse.

After all of that it's been rough in trying to get him back up to speed as much as I can at this point. I ended up taking him off of his senior food and been giving him a lot more wet to try and get him to eat more again. Along with I've been trying to get him to the park as often as I could to try and get him to walk a bit, but mostly to get him to swim to help his legs and joints as much as I could before it got too cold.

And now we come to last Sunday. As I said he's been a bit off since getting lyme disease and taking the pills, so it's been a struggle with one thing or another. At the same time at least we haven't really had to worry about him getting into the trash or trying to get some of our food because he can't counter surf anymore. Well for whatever weird reason a few nights before that he pulled out a bag of cereal from the cupboard, I didn't think anything of it and just left it there. Saturday night he messed with it more and the next morning I noticed a bit of blood on the bag and the floor. I figured he either cut a mark on his muzzle or even just his gums because of the bag. Well on closer inspection I noticed a bump on his gums above his teeth. Of course it was one of those moments where I kept trying to figure out if I had somehow seen it before and then ignored it or it was from him irritating his gums. Either way he had his yearly checkup in two weeks so I was going to have them check it out then and see about removing it.

He wasn't really having many issues with it, but it seemed like if he was laying on that side or would chew wrong he would irritated it and would bleed a little bit again. Wednesday he got bad to the point that I was starting to get really worried and figured I'd have to call his vet or another one to get it looked at sooner. So Thursday I was able to get him in and get him looked at. At this point he's at 44 lbs, which granted is less then he did weigh, but it's not as low as I was worried it had gotten. The one real downside was that his usual Dr was not in and the woman that looked at him wasn't reading through his chart properly and just kept assuming things. Along with saying he was probably fat at some point by just glancing at some of his much older checkups.

Well at this point I'm taking him back in on Thursday again to get it removed. Gotta drop him off at 8 and then pick him up again at 2. I'm just trying to not freak out too much till then, but either way I'm going to be freaking out the entire day until I pick him up in the afternoon. The main thing that worries me is that they claim they are going to put him under to remove it. They also want to do blood work to make sure that still looks good and do a chest xray to make sure nothing else is going on there. Which as many people know I would do everything I could for my dog, but if they happened to find some kind of cancer or something I know he wouldn't be able to get through treatment for one reason or another. Along with I really doubt I'd be able to pay for any of it with how that crap tends to work. But with how things tend to work with me I won't be surprised if there is some kind of problem or another with him with this whole thing. With how the bump on his gums has gotten slightly larger over the week and seems to after he bumps it and it bleeds I'm hoping it's just holding fluid and it won't be anything. Though my main worry at this point is that he's going to have issues waking up from the anesthetic and that he possibly won't. And if that happens I'm probably going to just completely shut down and have someone else drive me back to the house, because I don't think I'd be able to. But again we'll see with how things tend to work out. I just need to try and not freak out more then I need to till then.



TLDR; version
Dog got lyme disease during the winter, got pills and got better, but it was rough on him. Last Sunday I found a bump on his lip that was bleeding. So they want to operate on him this Thursday to remove it.