Just wanted to update and mention that the steroids seem to be working great, his bumps have gone down, almost gone and the oozing is gone! Now just hanging on to the hope that this is acute and not chronic :D:D:D
So the vet thinks that this is what is wrong with my dog.
back story, Easter weekend find two small lumps on his chest, we think maybe fatty tumors no biggie he will be 9 this fall, it happens
two weeks after that we notice there are more and much bigger, then one appears to have opened and is oozing and then my husband accidently pops one next to the open one by touching to to eximine its consistency, thing shoots out at him like a zit on acid, hit his glasses and all over his arm :eek:
take him to vet, they drain a cyst or two and look under microscope and says that it doesn’t look like cancer but to be sure we need to do a biopsy for $$$ but he gets some antibiotics to keep the open things from getting an infection
week after that, looks like he is on death’s door, go to different vet for different opinion, tumors/cysts/whatever much bigger and much more numerous, one looks like a tennis ball on his hip and some on his ribs and more on the chest and some on his back and he looks like he lost weight 
2nd vet looks him and says he doesn’t look good, he has lost 4 pounds, they quote a biopsy at half the cost and she thinks it is most likely either mast cell tumors, cancer, or a rare fungal case
takes biopsy and fluid from cysts and sends for testing
no cancer :), no mast cell but still no result on fungal or maybe even bacterial
few days later, goes in again to try for another biopsy but lumps not cooperating and only get fluid, also get two drainage tubes in for two large pockets of fluid, one being on the hip where the tennis ball busted all on its own :no: and gets antibiotics to keep infection away due to several open things/sores
current, new ones still poping up and busting, today one busted an you could tell it really hurt him, last few days he has been in an e-collar due to the tubes, call vet to get update and to update her and she says that the lab said no fungal, not sure what it is and its most likely sterile nodular panniculitis and she will need to research it as she has never diagnosed it
we search it as well and well it seems there are no real answers and treatment is usually steroids
so, sorry for the book but here we are
ps. 2nd vet, now vet is mainly eastern not western medicine and would like to try herbs instead of steroids due to long term use complications, however dog appears to be getting worse again and long term may not be a problem
pss. we have been taking him to work to keep an eye on him and he has totally won over the office and staff and clients alike love him (except for one who does not like dogs and we kept him away from her once we knew, he was totally out of signt)
