Tough Decision

It was the weekend of June 11/12th, we noticed Shadow had started limping a little on his Left Paw/Foot. We thought maybe he had hurt it while playing with the other dogs. Couple days had passed not getting better nor worse either. We were already leaving for our family vacation to the beach on Wednesday June 15th. My brother and boyfriend were staying at the house with the dogs and my sister lives close to us. Shadow had appointment at our vets for that Friday June 17th to have his leg looked at. My brother and sister took him to the appointment and reported to us that not really sure what is what but gave him pain medicine. We didn’t think much about it. We came home in Monday evening June 20th. My sister and brother called a family meeting and said they didn’t tell us the truth about Shadow and that he had a tumor in his leg and was in pain and most likely his leg would need to be amputeed. What a shock we were all in. The next day Tuesday June 21st my mom and I sprung in to action. Shadow had another appointment with our vet that afternoon,  more xray were done and showed the tumor had grown over the weekend but did not move into his lungs and his blood worked looked really good. Our vet called right away to the oncologist office and they could see us right away. The oncologist comfirm everything for us that Shadow  would definitely need surgery. They could do it the very next morning. We made the decision to have it done after alot of tears. It was the one of the hardest  decision we have made but we knew it was the best for him to have any chance of life. After many upsetting good byes, hugs , kisses and feeling sick as we walked out the office so empty still kept saying what else could we do. We have to everything possible for Shadow!!!! Wednesday morning came and we called upto the vets Shadow was already in surgery, took about 3 hours for them to call us ( felt like a lifetime) but Shadow came out fine and was resting. The surgeon later called us, Shadow was resting and was doing good. She thinks that she had got all the tumor but also took out lymph nodes to send out for testing. The test take 2 weeks to come back. We are hoping for the best results!