Time goes on...

I must say it has been a while, again since my last post. Our lives have been very busy of late and also a little on the stressful and crazy side of things.

I will start with my dog Mercedes. Here is a picture of both our dogs with Luke but it is a few years old. Mercedes is the yellow lab in the picture.

At the end of January Mercedes tore her ACL in her knee on one of her back legs. We were told she could live like this just wont be able to run and play like she use to. OK great! Take her home consider surgery but no rush, vet said we could decide in time. With in a month she stopped eating and develops a lump on the hip of the same leg with the torn knee. We start thinking her hip is now out of place (my dogs are 9). So we decide to consult the vet about moving forward with knee surgery. When we do we find out she has cancer and that lump on her hip is a cancer mass. At this point we have a couple options, first remove cancer (no promis of removing it all), then have knee surgery or do nothing and wait. We decided since she was 9 and two surgerys was just to much money with to much unknown we decided to do nothing.

We medicated her to keep her comfortable and watched this cancer lump grown into a volley ball size mass on her hip as well as growing inside. Needless to say last Tuesday (April 12) was Mercedes last with us. We had to put her down as she lost all control of one leg (it swelled and was dead) and was starting to lose the other which ment it was time.

We are all a little heart broken but this is the reality of life. Sad part is we never thought we would lose this dog first she was so healthy, fit, active before January.

As for the rest of our life, we are buys working on our house (painting) getting ready to put siding on it. This is only 9 years over due. Both boys are playing soccer now. This keeps us busy running two nights a week and then Saturday games. Thomas has not had his first game yet due to rain this past weekend they cancelled all games. Hopefully this Saturday will be his first. Lets hope I don't forget the camera, I seem to do that a lot these days.