I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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I'm in a bit of a grey area with the leaving early at an event. With martial arts tournaments its not a problem leaving early once you're done competeing. My daughters has a dance recital and we left after they were done because they were only in one piece and there were still hours left to go with the program. Too long to ask two six years to sit still. But a college graduation like Don sited, you sit 'til the end unless you have a damn good reason not to.
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