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Took my Oreo to the vet today because the lump she said was nothing a few weeks ago was growing. I said my concern was mast cell cancer having just lost my little yorkie to this killer last year. Trudy was my companion and buddy. It started with her as a lump just like the sabacious cysts all yorkies get...but it wasn't. I let it go too long?..and the shoulder area was all involved...they couldn't get it all..the rest of the story is too painful to recount here but I had to put her down after much suffering for both of us.
Now my Oreo...the vet said she couldn't believe it that the aspirate was full of mast cells...so surgery tomorrow. I asked her what the prognosis was...50%, 80% what? She said if it is encapulsated at least an 80% chance of a good recovery. This "thing" is only the size of a small pea now but has grown 40% in the last month!
I am facing the worst thoughts now but have to be positive. If tomorrow she finds its' not encapsulated I fear I will have to tell her to put him down...I know what this cancer is like...terrible!
Some questions for those of you with experience in this:
1) Any thoughts as to why my little trudy and now Oreo both have/had mast cell cancer?...environment?, food?, frontline?
2) Any guesses based on experience as to prognosis for recovery? if encapsulated? if not encapsulated?
3) If she aspirated the cancer and it bled did not she "rupture" the capsule allowing the mast cells to spill over into the blood stream?
Poor Oreo...he doesn't seem to know and I can't tell him about tomorrow.....you can see Oreo's picture on my post...a sweet rescue that walked the 250 feet from the street where he was as a little kitten up the drive in a rain storm to our back deck
In a way I wish tomorrow wouldn't come
Geo
Now my Oreo...the vet said she couldn't believe it that the aspirate was full of mast cells...so surgery tomorrow. I asked her what the prognosis was...50%, 80% what? She said if it is encapulsated at least an 80% chance of a good recovery. This "thing" is only the size of a small pea now but has grown 40% in the last month!
I am facing the worst thoughts now but have to be positive. If tomorrow she finds its' not encapsulated I fear I will have to tell her to put him down...I know what this cancer is like...terrible!
Some questions for those of you with experience in this:
1) Any thoughts as to why my little trudy and now Oreo both have/had mast cell cancer?...environment?, food?, frontline?
2) Any guesses based on experience as to prognosis for recovery? if encapsulated? if not encapsulated?
3) If she aspirated the cancer and it bled did not she "rupture" the capsule allowing the mast cells to spill over into the blood stream?
Poor Oreo...he doesn't seem to know and I can't tell him about tomorrow.....you can see Oreo's picture on my post...a sweet rescue that walked the 250 feet from the street where he was as a little kitten up the drive in a rain storm to our back deck
In a way I wish tomorrow wouldn't come
Geo