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I cried like an idiot when he told us. I was SO relieved. I had been having horrid stomach pains and burning for weeks. I thought I was experiencing a physical problem. When I got the news, it all went away.

Final update on my little Pluie's situation! You can read my past posts for more details, but in summary, in March 21 she developed a hard lump on her lower jaw which turned out to be an abscess. It was drained, and a rotten tooth was removed. On April 1, we took her back to our family vet...

Oh, that's such good news!!

Thank you so much for your response. I know I shouldn't get ahead of myself, and it would be better for my mental health to remain optimistic, but I always like to be as informed as I can be about the worst case scenario. We don't have an animal oncologist except for 6 hours away, but the...

So, on March 21st, my cat's right lower jaw swelled out of the blue and was painful. We rushed her to the vet that night, and they took dental x-rays and a fine needle aspirate of the lump. The aspirate showed neutrophils and tons of rod-shaped bacteria under the microscope. Based on that and...

Thank you. You're right! I think I have some sort of weird trauma related to cat cancer. My Moon passed two years ago from mammary cancer. Last year, my Sangria got diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer). We got her a VERY expensive specialist surgery, and she...

Three days ago, I was petting my cat on the side of the head when she winced and ran away. I grabbed her to look at the area and noticed that there was a bone-hard lump along her left jawline. Of course, I freaked out. Convinced she had osteosarcoma or squamous cell carcinoma, I rushed her to...

Same here! It was yeast and bacteria in both ears. The vet said she has narrow ear canals, so it's possible moisture gets stuck in there. We will be extra careful drying her ears after baths. She was on 10 days of ear drops. They were drops that contained a medicine for both the yeast and the...

Update for Sangria, too! Blood work with our general vet showed huge improvement. Her ALP is back to normal as is her bilirubin. Her ALT is still elevated, but it's going down and her GGT is just slightly elevated. Globulin is normal again, and her anemia has resolved. All of this blood work...

Update! She had her appointment with the cardiologist last week. Everything came back PERFECT. Her ultrasound, EKG, blood pressure, neuro exam, blood work, and chest x-ray were all normal. The cardiologist did not recommend follow-up at this time and, based on the way the episode presented...

Thank you! So, our vet agreed that usually these fainting spells have cardiac origins. We ran a complete blood panel which came back perfect. Chest x-ray showed nothing amiss, and our vet did not identify a heart murmur while listening to her heart. However, she does agree that a complete...

I swear, the universe absolutely hates me. I feel like I could melt down at any moment. We are dealing with a possible bile duct cancer recurrence in one cat, and then the other night, we had a horrifying experience with our other cat who is otherwise healthy. Let me preface by saying that we...

I hope that your kitty feels better soon! You're going above and beyond. Today makes day 7 of treatment, and Sangria is still doing well. The jaundice around her ears is fading!!

Update, Feb 19: Urine is still a normal colour! My wife says that the jaundice has improved a bit, but I can't tell. She eats normally, plays, is alert, and is back to her old self. If we count the day she got her medication in injection form (February 15), this is day 5 of treatment. I...

PEE IS A NORMAL COLOUR!!! I compared it to my other cat's pee in the litter.

Good news this morning! Sangria ate all her meals by herself last night and this morning. I know it's probably the steroid and appetite stimulant, but still. She is also alert and playful. I'm not sure if it's my imagination, but her urine seems lighter. The high bilirubin (jaundice) was making...

Thank you for the kind words. I was assuming that the steroid would work within the first couple of hours. I looked up online how long it takes Dexamethasone to work, and that's what it says. Good news is that she just ate a ton! Again, I don't want to get my hopes up as that might just be the...

Man has it been a journey. Very brief background -- in December, Sangria had a liver lobectomy at a specialist hospital to remove a well-differentiated massive (not nodular or diffuse) mass on her liver. It turned out to be bile duct cancer. Good news from pathology was that Sangria's seemed to...

Thank you!! She had dropped from 7.8lbs to 7.0lbs when she was weighed two days ago. Should I wait until morning to weigh her and see if she has gained a couple of ounces?