9/27 Shadow found a lump and labs posted

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rhiannon and shadow (GA)

rhiannon and shadow (GA)

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Hello. ( think Eeyore when you say it)
The news continues to decline. How much worse can this year get? :YMSIGH:

I spoke to the vet yesterday. She ordered budesemide for Shadow. She thought it would do less damage with the diabetes issue.
I'm willing to try it although it is a capsule.... so I guess I'll butter the pill and chase it with water. ( I hate capsules since they stick so easily)
I forgot to ask whether a ct scan would give us any more information.
I also found a lump on just behind her right front shoulder, it's very soft and flat over the rib cage.
I will call to get it aspirated next week. ( we have no veterinary services on weekends, not even emergency) You have to drive to Santa Fe.
So she has an unknown lump, just had a pre-cancerous tail lump removed in the summer, her pylorus is thick, her small intestinal wall is thick and two lymph nodes are visible ( when they aren't supposed to be) .... the nodes over the spleen.

The vet does agree with me that short of a miracle.... we can only wait and see. And try to keep her as well as we can.
Oddly, her labs improved since last May.

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(((Rhiannon))) Many hugs for you and kisses to Shadow! I hope the lump you found isn't anything to worry about. :YMHUG: :YMHUG:
 
Is it soft or hard?
Does it move easily or is it stuck in place?

Soft and easily moveable suggests benign tumor.
Hard or stuck in place suggests malignant tumor.
 
((((Rhiannon)))),
I'm sorry to hear this news, but hope that all will turn out to be benign. Thinking of you and thinking positively for the aspiration results.

Hugs and scritches and lots of vines,

Ella & Rusty
 
This new one is soft and flat.... spread out over the rib on that side. It does not feel like the one she had a couple of years ago. That one felt like a squishy hard boiled egg yolk and wasn't attached and yet when they cut it out.... it had infiltrated all of the muscle and he had to cut away bits of muscle to try to get it all.
That one was an infiltrative lipoma.... very invasive.... and supposedly very rare in cats.

I fear this is the same kind... just flatter.
I can't tell if it's deeply attached. They didn't know the other one was until they went in.


I'm so torn. I don't want to put her thru several surgeries just to find out ....
That is a worse quality of life issue for her..... vets... surgery... anesthesia........
I'd be doing it all for me.....

The vet thinks since we have already dealt with precancerous growths twice.... that now they are starting internally.
And they can't really "fix" her pylorus.
It would be a treacherous path.
 
The links go to the same labs.....or I'm hallucinating...which is possible.

If her labs are better than these than there is nothing in them which concern me. The May labs look pretty good!!!

Ok Eeyore......the pyloris might very well respond to steroids. If you have to put her back on insulin, so be it.

Let me know when you post the new labs and I'll pop back in. Sending prayers that the new lump is just a bit of fat or something totally not to worry about.
 
(((Rhiannon)))
Lots of prayers and vines for you and Shadow. Hopefully, as Marje says, the new lump will be something benign. I'll be thinking of you while you wait for the new lab results.
Grace
 
Rhiannon...I am so sorry to hear about Shadow. I am thinking and praying lots for you both. You know... miracles can always happen. Sending lots of these :YMHUG: :YMHUG: :YMHUG:
 
So sorry to hear this news :(

As for the buedesonide, Skooter takes that, but we got it in a liquid form for Wedgewood Pharmacy...not sure if that might be an option if pilling is difficult....


Sending lots of hugs your way.
 
I tried several times last night to get a hold of this flattened lump and couldn't really . I have to let the vet try... they are better at it than I am.

This morning the alarm went off, and I stayed with Shadow since she was cuddling . I am trying to enjoy what I have while it's here.
 
I think her labs look really good and stable. I would highly recommend you get a free catch urine sample.....get her first pee of the morning...and have a urinalysis done just to be sure it looks good and she is concentrating her urine. It needs to be the first of the day, though, because that is the most concentrated sample. Urine specific Gravity can vary through the day especially if they drink a lot of water or you add it to her food.

How about asking the vet to do a needle aspirate of the new spot? Infiltrative lipoma cells have a distinctive look from just regular adipose cells.

Glad you got some cuddle time. Sending more prayers and hugs for you both.
 
(((Rhiannon and Shadow))) I am so sorry to hear this, sending tons and tons of prayers and positivity vines for you both! :YMHUG: :YMHUG:
 
Sending tons of prayers to you. Can you get the budesemide compounded into an easier-to-administer form? I used gelcaps with Trix's meds and know what you mean about them sticking. I use butter, too, but sometimes even that doesn't help :roll: , but most of the time the butter works. Yay for improved labs....that is good news!

Please keep us posted.
 
 

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