A nice quiet Friday; nothing I like better after a long week.  The slow pace gave my parents a chance to catch up with some of the recent cases.
Zeke had his test with the goo-covered probe, and then had to have some more red syrup tested.  Turns out he doesn't have a tumor in his belly, which I guess is a good thing.  Patient Pam seemed relieved to hear the news and satisfied that she could get some pills to help with Zeke's problems.

Rose, the pug, got her test results back from the lump my dad removed.  Her lump was a mast cell tumor but dad got all the bits out and it received a grade 1 which I understand to be a good grade for that kind of tumor.  I don't really understand the grading system.  Mother gives out a lots of A's and A+'s on her report cards for our furry visitors, but no one ever got quite the happy look that Rose's mom had after getting her Grade 1 report.  Maybe mother needs to change her grades.
We also saw Pookie the sheltie back.  He has healed well and his mom is "so grateful for the extra time with him."  His report came back, but his news wasn't as good as Roses', "The type of cancer in his spleen is something called a hisiocytic sarcoma.  We all thought that it would come back as a hemangiosarcoma.  Unfortunately it is still a malignant cancer and the prognosis is about the same."  Mother went on to discuss other medicines that Pookie could have called 'chemotherapy', but Pookie's mom said she was happy with every day she has with him now, and "enough is enough".
Finally, Humvee came back for a visit today.  Dad didn't have enough extra skin to close the hole that the extra tongue came out of, so he wanted to make sure things were healing ok.  "Wow, it looks great" he said surprised "we don't have his test results back, but it's a good sign that things seem to be healing well."  I have to say for a big giant scary looking dog, he's not scary at all.  In fact, I bark and bark and bark at him and he looks almost as if he might just do what I tell him.  I guess he's smarter than he looks too.