Hey Malley.
“What’s up, Mom?”
I want to take you to the vet today.
“No way, lady. No chance.”
You’ve got this bump on your neck and I want them to take a look at it.
It’s not a sore and the skin looks fine, but I don’t remember it being there last month.
“I think it’s fine. Let’s leave it alone.”
No, O’Malley. We need to have the vet check it out.
“I’m thinking about it.”
“Okay I will go, but I want to take a bath first.”
That sounds reasonable, O’Malley. Go ahead and swim while I get the carrier ready.
“Thanks, Mom.”
“Whee!”
“Okay I’m almost ready.”
“Let’s go.”
“I’ll drive.”
Oh I think I’ll drive, O’Malley. But thanks for the offer.
I was really worried when I noticed a lump on O’Malley’s neck yesterday. It doesn’t have an open sore anywhere and it also doesn’t look infected, but it wasn’t there a few weeks ago. The vet felt it and couldn’t see anything to biopsy. She said it felt like fatty skin, nothing more. O’Malley had blood work done and we’ll have those results on Monday afternoon. The vet thinks it’s just an area of thickened skin or fat. O’Malley is acting normally and eating and drinking just fine. We’ll post more as soon as we have his blood results.
We hope it’s just a new patch of fat. Not only would it be great for O’Malley to be just fine, but it would also be amusing for him to have neck fat. We would enjoy making fun of his neck fat since he scared us with this vet visit. So keep your fingers crossed for O’Fatty. I mean O’Malley.
By the way, he weighs 6.14kg which is 13.5lbs! That’s a BIG ducky (all muscle, right buddy?)
“I heard that!”
