Hello all,
I need help and advice. I took my two year old brown tabby cat Jack into the vet today for a routine check-up. I thought he was just fine. I had notice a firmer mass right under his ribcage that I wanted to ask about as well. I figured I was paranoid because my other cat Bridget, who is 13 and wonderful, has cancer and is therefore very lumpy and bumpy. So I am always on the look out for bumps. The vet was definitely concerned when she found the mass, and took an X-ray.
At this point all the docs are baffled. Jack's stomach looks like bone...the whole thing showed up white and sort of squigilly looking. There was no barium in him, so the white was very shocking and unexpected. The closest thing the vet could guess at is Intestinal Lymphoma, but she thought that was a far off guess. She said it looked as if it was calcified. They took tests and we should know more on Monday.
Jack seems fine, he doesn't throw up and he eats and poops fine from what I can tell. All the vets acted like this was a very serious problem. At this point they can't really offer me any suggestions about what to do because they still don't know what it is. It is not a mass in his stomach, it IS his stomach, the whole thing. In the x-ray is looked like it was packed full of white worms. She said that worms don't how up on x-rays and that is not what it was. So what is it!? I have been crying all day, I am so scared and I just feel doomed. Has anyone ever heard of this, or seen anything like it? Any guesses or similar problems would be appreciated. I can't belive I have two sick cats, and both couldn't be sweeter. Thanks for reading
~Kathy
I need help and advice. I took my two year old brown tabby cat Jack into the vet today for a routine check-up. I thought he was just fine. I had notice a firmer mass right under his ribcage that I wanted to ask about as well. I figured I was paranoid because my other cat Bridget, who is 13 and wonderful, has cancer and is therefore very lumpy and bumpy. So I am always on the look out for bumps. The vet was definitely concerned when she found the mass, and took an X-ray.
At this point all the docs are baffled. Jack's stomach looks like bone...the whole thing showed up white and sort of squigilly looking. There was no barium in him, so the white was very shocking and unexpected. The closest thing the vet could guess at is Intestinal Lymphoma, but she thought that was a far off guess. She said it looked as if it was calcified. They took tests and we should know more on Monday.
Jack seems fine, he doesn't throw up and he eats and poops fine from what I can tell. All the vets acted like this was a very serious problem. At this point they can't really offer me any suggestions about what to do because they still don't know what it is. It is not a mass in his stomach, it IS his stomach, the whole thing. In the x-ray is looked like it was packed full of white worms. She said that worms don't how up on x-rays and that is not what it was. So what is it!? I have been crying all day, I am so scared and I just feel doomed. Has anyone ever heard of this, or seen anything like it? Any guesses or similar problems would be appreciated. I can't belive I have two sick cats, and both couldn't be sweeter. Thanks for reading
~Kathy