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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Or maybe I'm just in denial.
I've heard too many people in real life who don't seem to know the most basic facts.
I'm just grateful to have surrounded myself with people online, for ~20 years, that make me doubt the legitimacy of the ignorance displayed in this post.
Seriously.
For good and bad, including the NSA and the l33tmobs: Thank you for not letting that shit inside my bubble.
I'd also like to thank myself for not being on Facebook, even though I understand ignorance is not restricted to that domain.