When I brought Josie home from the vet, my Irish bride cried when she saw her stitches.  It looks ugly.  She has two large areas that are shaved, with stitches that are about six inches long on her back and on her rump. 

The vet removed two surface tumors.  The one on her back was fibrous matter and the one that was high up on her hind leg, the one that was bleeding, was soft tissue. When I asked him if they looked cancerous, he said that they both possibly could be and he removed all the tumor he could see.  I don't want a lab report.  Knowing or not knowing will not change the way we treat her.

Josie is big for a female Pyrenees, and when she was in her prime, she weighed 125 pounds. Before the surgery she weighed 86 pounds.  She has lost a third of her body weight.  I knew she was getting thinner, but I was stunned when I realized just how severe the loss had become.  She has zero body fat and now she's burning her muscle tissue.

The average life of a great pyrenees is 8 to 10 years and Josie is over 12 years old.  I'm not satisfied with 12 years. I want more time with Josie.  I'm going to fatten her up and give back to her the same pleasure and quality of life that she's given us.

Today we have a sock taped on her left front leg because she has bitten the hair off.  We think it's probably irritated where the needle for sedative for the surgery was inserted.