I’ve got a couple of rose bushes that have yet to flower for me. They’re both in their second year, they’re both getting more than 6 hours of direct sunlight daily, they are watered and fed regularly. Both are potted in very, very large pots. I think I’m doing all the right things, but I haven’t gotten a single bloom on either plant yet.
Do these look like blind shoots? If so, how far down would you recommend pruning?
Sully is out of surgery. The vet said he’s doubtful he was able to get clean margins because of the size and location of the tumor, but he’s hopeful. We’ll know in the next week or so how to proceed.
The good news: the tumor is off and his ultrasound showed that all of his organs looked normal!
I’m feeling a lot better today than when I first posted about this last week. THANK YOU to everyone who responded on my post or messaged me to check in on him. You guys are a wonderful group of people 💕
My sweet Sully has had a golf ball sized mass dangling from his hind leg for a couple of years. It looked and felt like a lipoma so our vet never felt a fine needle aspirate was necessary. This past weekend, that little golf ball sized mass grew to about three times its size and looked very stressed.
I worried all weekend and called the vet first thing Monday morning. Long story short, after several visits over the past three days, the vet cautiously believes it to be a mast cell tumor but is not completely ruling out sarcoma.
The surgeon at the vet’s office wants to try to reduce the size of the tumor (which is situated behind the dangling mass) in order to lessen how aggressive they need to be in surgery. He’s trying to avoid amputating his leg. So he gave him a steroid injection, put him on antibiotics and Benadryl (something about reducing the histamines), and wants to see where he is in about 3 weeks.
The past few days have been awful.
If you have a cancer success story, would you mind sharing it with me? I really need some hope to hang on to right now.
Photo of my heart for tax
About 15 years ago, my son was able to shadow an ER surgeon at TGH for a shift. It was an invaluable experience and I’d love to be able to set something like this up for my daughter who is interested in ER nursing. However, I don’t have the same connections I used to have and I really just kind of lucked into the experience for my son.
Is there any sort of program or opportunity for those interested in nursing to shadow someone?