Sophie

Today marks the seven month anniversary from the day we brought Sophie from the veterinarian.  She is doing great (kanena hora).  She is getting around just fine. It is hard to tell that she has any problems.

We are still hydrating (injecting 125 mg of lactated ringers solution into the scruff of Sophie’s neck) three days on one day off.  The hydration is going much better now than it was.  We were originally given a #18 needle for the hydration but thought it was too big for Sophie so we asked if we could go to a #20 needle.  He said it would be ok.  After a couple of months of using the smaller needle we went back to the #18.  While bigger, the #18 allowed the solution to flow more quickly allowing for a shorter time to hydrate.  Sophie also seemed to be more comfortable with the bigger needle too.

We are always aware that this is a day to day blessing and we are thankful every day to have Sophie with us .

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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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