So the lab results came yesterday and it’s confirmed. Storm has hemangiosarcoma.

Hemangiosarcoma is a rare, rapidly growing, highly invasive variety of cancer. It is a blood-fed sarcoma; that is, blood vessels grow directly into the tumor and it is typically filled with blood. A frequent cause of death is the rupturing of this tumor, causing the victim to rapidly bleed to death.

Interestingly enough, I haven’t really cried. I shed a couple of tears here or there but I’m coming to terms with it. I’m keeping my faith strong and truly believe that this is God’s will and I’m not to question it.

I’m going to make every effort to make his life as comfortable and happy as possible. I’ll be talking to his vet today to discuss chemotherapy and get any more supplements and research appropriate meal plans for him to stay strong and healthy for as long as possible.

He’s in no pain and usually happy. He’s highly intuitive and notices when I get upset so for the life of me, I’m avoiding that as much as possible.

Life is short and we just have to make the best of it. I’ve been blessed for almost 11 years with Storm and I don’t think it’ll be fair to him or anyone if I make the remainder of his life stressful and hurt him this way and essentially hurt my own body as well.