Wednesday, March 24. I woke up at 5:00 am this morning to shower and leave early to get Sadie to Dr. Chretin. She needs to be dropped off around 7:30 am and I like to avoid the morning rush hour on the 405. We gave Sadie breakfast, she did not want to eat canned food but did eat the dry food, especially K/D. Following breakfast she got the sedative and shortly after that we loaded her into the carrier for the trip to the doctor.
We are very anxious because over the last 4 days we have felt the lump on the left side of her throat get noticeably larger and the lump on the right side of her throat is growing. We put a warning note on her carrier that she should be kept in a flat cage because she will get a bit wobbly from the drugs.
Dr. Chretin called around 10:30 am. Sadie gained a bit of weight over the past two weeks but that was the only good news. The doctor said that the lymph nodes are a bit bigger. The tablet chemo can be given safely every 3 weeks only because to do so at two weeks is too dangerous; she would be at risk for infections which are life threatening. The chemo is not holding the cancer at bay fast enough to hold tumors down; this chemo not cutting it for her; the further you get along in chemo protocol lower the chances for cure and the more resistance causes the cancer to become harder to get under control and it becomes less likely that anything else will work. At best we have a 25% chance of chemo working at all.
We decided to give her one additional dose of pill chemo and to change the steroids. I am to call the doctor in two weeks to report progress. If Sadie is stable, then in 3 weeks will do chemo again. If the tumors are worse in 3 weeks will not do anything further. I picked up Sadie at the doctor’s office and brought her home. She has an appetite and we hope she will take a nap and sleep off the effects of the drugs.
Unfortunately we are resigned that we do not have much time left with Sadie, perhaps two to eight weeks only. This is very difficult to process and we try not to cry. Yeah, right.
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In January 2008 I found out my Kallie (a calico cat) had cancer. She too had the cancer treatment and the surgies to have the tumor removed. The doctor told me with great deal of reassurance that he had gotten out the entire tumor. A few months of cancer free the tumor came back in the exact spot that it was in the first time. Where here skin had been stiched back together tore open due to the size of the tumor and it was right on her back hip. By the end of 2008 Kallie could no longer walk. She passed away on January 15th, 2009. I tried my hardest to be strong for her but I couldn’t do it. I cried before she died, after died, and everytime I think about her. Every night before the vet appointments I wouldn’t be able to sleep. After she died I couldn’t sleep or eat. People have told me that she was just a cat. But she was way more than that to me. I love her and losing her was losing a piece of me. I understand how hard it is and exactly how you feel. I will be thinking of you and Sadie and as always my Kallie. Thank you for sharing your story. Stay strong I know how diffcult it will be.