My 15 year old female cat, Maggie, was diagnosed today from a biopsy with Nasal Large Cell Lymphoma. The vet said she has the preliminary results in but usually the final results (due tomorrow) never differ. She has an appointment in a WEEK (no other appointment available) with a very good oncologist that my boyfriend had used with his dog.
Maggie has had a full panel work up and besides this awful cancer, all her other values are perfect (to the point the vets are kinda stunned). Great liver, great kidney function.
She is currently on a very low dose of prednisolone. She no longer has eye or nasal discharge though she does have some occasionally noisy breathing. She is uncomfortable and will not eat on her ow but does tell me that she's hungry so I finger feed her every 4-5 hours and she's actually put on some weight. Not a long term solution, I know, but keeps her going until her treatments start and we discuss whether to consider a feeding tube or not.
For those of you that have "been there" with this awful diagnos (or something similar), I have some questions:
1) what would you do that you didn't do before, or not do again that you did do
2) did you cat go through chemo, radiation therapy or both?
3) did you try any hollistic medicine? (see Vitality Science "Advanced Immune Restoration/ Cat Cancer" https://www.vitalityscience.com/product/advanced-immune-restoration/
4) Would you try something hollistic in the interim before your appointment or would you be scared to alter whatever additional tests were done?
5) For those that have resorted to a feeding tube, what was your experience and would you do it again....or do if if you didn't use one.
Any other information you can provide would be GREATLY appreciated.
Kind regards,
Regina
Maggie has had a full panel work up and besides this awful cancer, all her other values are perfect (to the point the vets are kinda stunned). Great liver, great kidney function.
She is currently on a very low dose of prednisolone. She no longer has eye or nasal discharge though she does have some occasionally noisy breathing. She is uncomfortable and will not eat on her ow but does tell me that she's hungry so I finger feed her every 4-5 hours and she's actually put on some weight. Not a long term solution, I know, but keeps her going until her treatments start and we discuss whether to consider a feeding tube or not.
For those of you that have "been there" with this awful diagnos (or something similar), I have some questions:
1) what would you do that you didn't do before, or not do again that you did do
2) did you cat go through chemo, radiation therapy or both?
3) did you try any hollistic medicine? (see Vitality Science "Advanced Immune Restoration/ Cat Cancer" https://www.vitalityscience.com/product/advanced-immune-restoration/
4) Would you try something hollistic in the interim before your appointment or would you be scared to alter whatever additional tests were done?
5) For those that have resorted to a feeding tube, what was your experience and would you do it again....or do if if you didn't use one.
Any other information you can provide would be GREATLY appreciated.
Kind regards,
Regina