Sorry for not updating - well the vet called late yesterday evening. The chest xrays and ultrasounds and everything came back clear. So, there is no cancer anywhere else in her body. The vet said he consulted with another radiologists and he/she confirmed that it was inconclusive on whether or not she has cancer in her leg or if it is a bone cyst. So, the vet told my dad that we have basically two options. We can either done a bone graft surgery and they would go in scrap off what is on her bone and then rebuild. They would send off what they got off the bone to be tested for cancerous cells. This surgery has a 50/50 % chance of working. Or they can just amputate the leg, they would send that off to be tested for cancerous cells. Either way it's $3,000. Of course we can also do nothing but that would leave Lexi in almost constant pain, so that is obviously out. We could also just have her put to sleep now, but that is out of the question since we don't know if it's cancer or not. My dad says he's leaning towards the bone graft surgery but is going to think on it for another day or two I think.

Lilyr - Lexi is 4 1/2 years old. They did a biopsy once already, where they cut her open and took some of it to test. But it came back inconclusive. The vets don't want to just do a second biopsy in case it comes back inconclusive again.

Misscat...I'm like lilyr & tirama. so sorry that they did not find a diagnosis. What a shame that everything that was tried is coming back inconclusive.  I hope all goes well with the bone graft.

Tirama...Good luck to you at the dentist both for you and your dog.  That's nice that your DH is there to help. Try not to worry to much.



 

sunshinej - thanks. Yeah. it does suck that 4 different "experts" can't say what is wrong with my dog. The only thing we do know is that there is no cancer anywhere else in her body so that is a good thing. The vet did say that we had time and wasn't concerned about doing either surgery right away. So, I'm thinking he may be leaning towards it just being a cyst and not cancer. Otherwise I would think he would want to do one or the other right away. I would think anyway.

I finished 1 moment in Time: Silentville.  It was a medium type of game.  Played better & worse, but still it wasn't too bad.  It had a glitch after doing a puzzle it would kick you out with a run time error.  After a couple of times I checked the forums and found a work around.  After completing the puzzle you would immediately click X to get out of the closeup before the error code came up and it worked. 
I'm just so glad the game forums were left intact.  They have been a big help to me for so many games.