Sadie Coquette
We picked Sadie up late this morning (Monday); she seemed a bit dazed from her ordeal – she has never been away from home since we adopted her. Sadie was chattering almost the whole time home in the car, but seemed to quiet down when either of us talked to her. But, once inside the house she seemed at ease and found a few of her happy places. Our Vet called upon his receipt of the report from the radiologist, still no definitive answer as to what is going on. He agreed that we need to contact the oncologist and perhaps start light doses of chemo; we have a call in to the oncologist.
We spoke to the oncologist this evening; he has not received report from radiologist and expects to receive same tomorrow. We told him what the radiation specialist told us, that it is not thyroid, and the oncologist recommended a biopsy so we can confirm or rule out lymphoma or confirm or rule out another type of cancer. We will take Sadie in tomorrow morning and she will return home in the afternoon. We should then have the biopsy report in 2 to 3 days and can discuss what, if anything, further to do.
We took Sadie to the oncologist early this morning (Tuesday) for the biopsy; he called us at 9:00 am to tell us Sadie looks good, the tumor has shrunk almost in half during the past week (probably due to the first dose of chemo), that based on the second lab report, it is early-stage lymphoma and he does not feel that a biopsy is necessary.
We will continue the chemo protocol, which is once a week for six weeks (today is week 2) and then once every three weeks for the next 21 weeks. The oncologist believes that since we caught this so early, Sadie has a good chance for the tumor should go away. He does caution that 50% of cats in this condition experience remission after nine months but because this was caught early, he has given us a good prognosis for Sadie. We’ll be picking her up later this mornig.
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