This guy, this puppy, our little baby, Clayton has had rough time, once again.
How can you NOT love that face...
First he had that connective tissue tumor on his hip we had removed.
Then it appeared on his leg which we had the tumor removed twice, then...
he had to finally lose the leg. He is such a tough cookie and has rallied through amazingly.
The day we got him (here) was the best day ever. He has so enriched our lives and cannot imagine not having him with us.
That happy little guy has gone through so many surgeries and yesterday he had to endure one more and it will be the last. We will not put him through that again, because he has cancer, bad cancer, melanoma. In his mouth what we thought was an abscess from his nasty teeth and the smell turned out to be a rapidly spreading melanoma cancer beside his tongue. When I took him to the vet yesterday as a walk-in the Dr. Poteet took one look and said that has got to come out ASAP and he immediately gave him a pre-anesthetic and whisked him away. The tumor had grown massively in less than two weeks and had to go. Dr. Poteet said he would call between 6-7 and we could pick him up. We waited and finally after I was getting all relaxed, about 7:30, he called and said Clayton was ready to be picked up. I rushed to the vet and the poor guy, oh the poor guy. Dr. Poteet showed me the tumor (BLECH) and said he would send it off to pathology but he was pretty sure it was melanoma and that it was highly unlikely that he got it all. Where it was located there was not much skin left to suture up so he had to suture it to part of the back side of his tongue, (again BLECH!) His poor tongue was so swollen he couldn't close his mouth. I was sent home with antibiotic and a syringe to give him water and possibly some broth because he wasn't too sure he could lap. Oh boy, this is going to be fun. He slept fairly well but about 3:30 he started crying and I jumped up and took him outside and he pottied pretty quick. Back in I tried the water and the antibiotic and that went down fairly well. I cradled him until he went back to sleep and then put him in his bed. It's going to be a long few days to get him feeling better but we love him and will do what we need to do to make him comfortable and then wait. Wait for him to heal and wait to see if it starts growing back, then we will ease his suffering at that point. He is 14 years old and he has been the best dog ever. We love him so much. Say a doggie prayer please.
On another note, Monday evening Daddy's best friend since childhood, Jay passed away. I had a feeling he wouldn't last long after Daddy died. Jay and Daddy we so close and every time they left each other Jay would say "I love you bud" and they would hug and kiss each other. They were so very close. It's funny that I had the need to text his son Dino a couple of days ago but got busy and just didn't. Dino sent me a text yesterday morning that he had passed. He had gotten over Covid but then developed pneumonia and just couldn't fight it. They had a friendship that was so strong and it was fitting they passed so close in time.
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