Updates, we have updates
I was in San Antonio last week, very nice city though I suspect much of the time it would be too warm for me.
So...John Henry does have bone cancer--fibroblastic osteosarcoma. We have an appointment with the oncologist tomorrow where I should find out more, but she has told me that it is a slower progressing form of bone cancer so that is good, at least.
Right before I left for San Antonio he started bleeding (I thought) from his incision. I talked to the vet school and they thought it wasn't much to worry about (as did I, really)--he was active, eating, no fever. But then, it kept seeping...and seeping...and seeping. Finally, the woman who boards the dogs for me when I'm out of town, took him into the vet school and they put him on antibiotics and kept him there until I got back. It's still draining (a week and a half later) but some progress has been made and we've added another antibiotic to the mix so I'm hoping for it to clear up soon.
In good news, he's getting around great. He can jump in and out of the car himself (which he thinks is far preferable to having me help). He can go down and up the three steps into the house. Yesterday, through complicated circumstances tedious to relate, he ended up going down the basement stairs, which he did with great grace. Unfortunately for him the basement steps are open stairs--why I have been mostly making sure he can't go down there. So, he had a little more trouble going back up, but he did manage to make it. Though, he had to tell both Billie and I off when he got back upstairs. Made him very happy, though, going down stairs and coming back up.