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How is Nora doing? Did she have to do chemo? Hope all is going well!

Hi Everyone, I want to thank everyone for there responses a few weeks ago. It helped us try and exhaust every option to help Piggy or to hopefully get a different prognosis. It is nice to know there are so many caring strangers out there who try to provide insights and suggestions...

No...unfortunately they don't recommend spending time, stress (on cat) and money doing that because of Lymphoma. The prognosis is not good so they recommended doing steroids right away to help with quality of life and inflammation in gums, etc.

So our previous Vet agreed with other vet that it is pretty definitive and the Gingivitis would not but contributing to the fluid or the cells found in the cytology...also doesn't matter how young he is and the fact he doesn't have Luekemia or Feline AIDS...

I will definitely keep you posted and post here just in case anyone else ever runs into a similar issue/situation as well.

Agree - I am definitely going to ask them tomorrow when I speak with them when they are back in the office. Thank you for your reply

They didn’t say anything about anesthesia being any issue. Just seemed pretty convinced it’s Lymphoma. We would love another opinion from a Vet that has experience with this type of situation. We are waiting for our old vet to call us tomorrow. The oncologist was the one who recommended Chemo...

Thank you for both of your replies. They at first recommended removing teeth and treating the gingivitis. But once they did the x rays they saw all the fluid in the chest cavity so they said before we even go down that path, lets run more test to make sure there isn't something more serious...

Thank you very much and yes - it is hard to wait and wait. It has been difficult to get real doctors over the weekend to answer our questions from the results we received on Friday. They didn't find any thing in X-Rays (other than fluid in chest cavity). Didn't find anything definitive in the...

Also - since he is so young. Do you think best way to treat is through chemo? we are are a tough place trying to make the best decision. Obviously chemo is expensive and we are being told with chemo and complete success he would have an additional 6 months to live (on average). But i wonder if...

Our 5 year old male cat was recently diagnosed with Lymphoma. They found fluid in his chest cavity and cytology report showed out of 100 cells 85% were large immature lymphocytes. My question is if a cat has very very severe gingivitis, can that cause the high levels of lymphocytes AND the...