Hi friends,
As the title states, my cats microchip is now encapsulated by hard tissue and is scheduled to be removed this week! A little backstory: my cat is 9 years old and was microchipped before he turned 1 by his rescue. Over the years his microchip has migrated from in between his shoulders to now in his left armpit. It's been there for a few years but in January we noticed it felt a little ''lumpy'' and took him in to be seen. The vet verified that his microchip was still there and told us to keep an eye on it. Within the next 3 weeks it went from ''lumpy'' to a hard mass completely engulfing the microchip. He is scheduled to have it removed this week. Anyone else ever heard of this happening? My vet has never seen nor heard of this and is pretty confident it's just the chip causing an issue but we plan on sending it for a pathology report just to be safe. She also mentioned its too far back to be his lymph node but will check the nodes in the area while he's sedated. So strange!!
As the title states, my cats microchip is now encapsulated by hard tissue and is scheduled to be removed this week! A little backstory: my cat is 9 years old and was microchipped before he turned 1 by his rescue. Over the years his microchip has migrated from in between his shoulders to now in his left armpit. It's been there for a few years but in January we noticed it felt a little ''lumpy'' and took him in to be seen. The vet verified that his microchip was still there and told us to keep an eye on it. Within the next 3 weeks it went from ''lumpy'' to a hard mass completely engulfing the microchip. He is scheduled to have it removed this week. Anyone else ever heard of this happening? My vet has never seen nor heard of this and is pretty confident it's just the chip causing an issue but we plan on sending it for a pathology report just to be safe. She also mentioned its too far back to be his lymph node but will check the nodes in the area while he's sedated. So strange!!