I noticed a few days ago that Koonya has large lumps under his skin right by his jaw. Last night the skin under his jaw got swollen, and started to hang like jowls, so today I took him to the vet. The prognosis isn’t so good. The vet. said that it’s a good chance that he has lymphoma, a type of cancer, and that if he does, it’s not so much a question of whether he’ll survive, but of how long he’ll survive. Depending on the type and severity of the lymphoma he could live for even another year with treatment, but eventually it will kill him. He said that remission is very rare. If it is cancer, and it goes untreated the vet, gives him a few weeks to a couple of months. If it’s not cancer then Koonya should be fine. He’s scheduled for a biopsy tomorrow morning, and in a few days we’ll get the results.