not good news

Well it could always be worse. I suppose. Buster has a tumor. It's looking like cancer. There's the big c word! We just don't know what kind and how early it is. He doesn't seem to be in pain. We had his surgery done. They pulled 7 teeth. Actually most of them fell out. But the bleeding has stopped thank goodness. He's lost lots of blood.The tumor is in his mouth. Most of his lab work came back normal except for the liver enzym. It was high. But they thought maybe it was part of the infection or the cancer. We are waiting for the final lab results to come back. We will try to make him as comfortable as possible. We DO NOT want him to suffer. We are devestated. We've had him since he was two. He's now 12. We want the best for him. Hopefully we can treat it with medications. Hopefully it's early. There' a lot of hope - to keep him and us going.