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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Oh yeah...it's fascinating. It's why she started singing jazz. She was hit by a truck and was layed out in bed for a year, had to re-learn how to walk and ended up with severe neural damage and hypersensitivity in her eyes and ears, so she had to learn a softer music than the rock she used to like. She learned to play guitar and sing while in the hospital. And the hypersensitivity in her eyes is why she wears sunglasses almost all the time.