Rack, Two Years Later, Time Is Getting Shorter.

 So far so normal but appearances can be deceiving.

I'm in the house, it's quiet.  The internet radio is refusing to connect to a stream, so I will try again.  I hear an overhead airplane and the steady ticking of the clocks.

Also over that way on the doormat is Rack, the McNab SuperDog(TM).  Lick, Lick, Lick, Lick.

He's usually right at my elbow keeping an eye on me.

We have been on the Bonus Years for two years now.  Rack had a cancerous spot removed from his Anal Gland.  Go ahead, I have giggled at the term Anal Gland before myself.  

A little absurd, but I suppose those get into trouble as well.

We had that removed and were warned that he may last 3 months or he may last a few more.

It has been two years that we have been blessed.

When I call him the SuperDog(TM) I may be onto something.  14 years old and still with the energy of a much younger dog.  The vet is surprised.  She does not know how he could be putting on weight with resurgent cancer at "his age".

She doesn't know how stubborn I am.  The extra weight will help him survive at any rate.  If your dog is having problems putting on weight, a tablespoon of potato powder per meal will help if it is salt free.

He's now got cancerous lesions on his liver and his lymph nodes.  Gall bladder is showing abnormalities.  

I am being a little inexact but someone here is chopping onions and I can't really see what I am saying.

I have had the privilege of having him in our lives for 13 of those 14 years.  I'd do it over in a heartbeat.  At least his heart and lungs are strong, they did mention that.

I suspect the 3 to 6 miles of walking per day help.  I have an athletic life, so he will too by default.  At least I do when I don't have this blasted head cold.

I have had more than one tell me to make his last year excellent.  About all I can do differently is to walk him through the parking lot with the bars in it and let people fuss over him more than usual.  

Past that, we're just going let things happen.  Not much more I can do.  He's enjoying life so far.  If we're here in two more years, it's success.  If Summer?  Still good.  

I have to keep in mind that Dogs are here to teach us to love, and that they are here for a short time because they already know how.  

I know he has helped me heal.