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 was able to ride through in August 2010 on the way to see my dad in Southern California and it was very nice. I only stopped to take a few (5) pictures, but did capture much of it in HD 720p video. I really should upload it to YouTube like I did of the ride to & through Death Valley with my wife Kimberly A Edwards.
Yosemite footage is videos #8, 9, and 10 in the following YouTube Playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL50054FDEC318C6D1