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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Of course, as a college professor I studied social media so I had a bit of a leg up when it came time to actually - you know - use it.
And I'm using the term "professor" loosely .. as in "somebody who teaches college" and not the "rank attained by surviving tenure for the requisite number of years." My highest faculty rank was "adjunct" which falls somewhere above "teaching assistant" and somewhere below "human being."
That reality probably had some bearing on my decision to become a full time writer rather than pursue a career in academe.
Just to be clear.