Surgery for Pepper

Last week I wrote about how Pepper had a sore on her elbow, like the one she had on her other elbow before. Well Thursday I took her to the vet, and it turns out it is not like the other elbow. Her sore is in a different spot, and has extra tissue around it. He is worried it is a tumor and wants to do surgery...after a week of antibiotics to make sure he isn't operating on any infected tissues. It might not be a tumor,it could be a cyst, but we don't know until he gets in there. So tomorrow I will call to set it up, and sometime right after Steven leaves, Pepper will have surgery. I suppose I will need to learn how to do the dog suspenders. As a side note, he said he could take off her other two growths while she was knocked out. Yay? Part of being an old dog, I guess. 

Our big scary dog is a scaredy cat at the vet.

She hides under me...

Under the bench...

And in the corn, all while shaking. Poor dog. 

Another side note...I just sat here reading while Emma came downstairs 'not tired,' while Steven snuggled with her, gave her a bedtime snack, and put her back to bed. I did nothing. I'm going to miss this, doing nothing stuff...which I definitely remember savoring after he came home last year.