Thursday, July 26, 2007

Hastur the Dachshund Goes into Surgery Tomorrow

This past week has been a wild ride for myself and my tiny family. My dissertation topic has been change but there is a lot of political B.S. attached to it. Thank goodness I have a wonderful and powerful committee chair who supports me. I have been offered a PostDoc at my current institution (I keep getting offers from different places even though I won't graduate for another year) and decided to accept it. I will have the freedom to continue my own research in addition to my PostDoc requirements.

So with all that going on I find a lump on Hastur's neck and some of it is scabbed over. I take him to the vet's fully expecting it to be an abcess. It is a tumor and due to the sample she evaluated yesterday there a good possiblity that is cancerous. We will remove the entire tumor tomorrow and wait about a week for the verdict. So please keep your fingers crossed for this little guy.

4 comments:

Arthemise said...

Poor puppy! I hope all goes well.

vee said...

My fingers and toes are crossed for Hastur. The little furry ones really do hold a special place in one's heart, don't they? I have 2 cats and they are truly my family as much as my human family. Good luck.

Katrina said...

I hope Hastur is okay! Lots of good thoughts and prayers.

HasturTorres said...

Thank you for your kind word and thoughts. He is doing fine.