Good news! They treated Gracie’s lump that contained cancerous cells and it shrank and eventually fell off! Apparently the only way to see if it really was cancerous was to see if more developed or if the lump fell off, so it was a waiting game for our family. We had also found another lump, but thankfully the test results came back turned out to be just a lump. The veterinarian thinks that it may have just been a mosquito bite. Better safe than sorry though!

However, as I wrote in a few posts ago, ever since we adopted her, she has been sick with something. About four weeks ago she had become extremely sick. She could not stomach anything, everything was finding ways to leave her body, and she had no energy. When we first took her out for runs, she slowed down around 2 miles because she had never really run that far. She eventually worked her mileage up, but we first noticed that she was definitely sick when she could not even go more than a mile. This went on for about two weeks.

We brought her to the vet, and after she urinated on the floor due to excitement of meeting new people, the vet noticed that her bile was a deep orange color. This, of course, clearly showed that she was not healthy. We had never seen this color come from her before because she had been really good about not urinating in the house during those weeks. They then decided to run some tests and biopsied her liver. The test results came back to us a few days later and her scores were unbelievably far from normal. The doctors did not know how much longer she had, but they gave her some medication and told us to see if she got better over the next month.

Well, she is back to running many miles a week! Thankfully, the medication turned her health around within two weeks, and she has been acting very healthy! She is eating again, she is not throwing up, and she is back to being oh so chipper!

I’m so happy that she’s okay.