Recent Content by chris harris

Hi. She actually passed away shortly after this surgery. They got the throat cancer but they found cancer in the stomach area (X-ray) about 2-3 weeks later. We live in Iowa. So there is a university vet in Ames IA that is reasonable prices because it is a learning facility with students. It was...

BTW, here she is  here she is after surgery to take out the mass around her thyroid.

Update from vet/university testing: Universtiy said it was a Cystic Thyroid Carcinoma and little chance of recurrence!  The recommendation from them was to remove it which was done the day of the biopsy surgery already, so we are pretty excited about this news.   She is up to 9.4lbs (she was...

Thanks for the tips. Yeah if we can add anything to the baby food for now we are open to ideas. She is up to 9.2lbs now and we get her staples out from the surgery next week where we will see if she gained even more weight back.

Our cat Cordelia (Cordy) had surgery today to get a mass out of her throat/thyroid area.  I thought i would share her symptoms and what is happening in case others run into the same symptoms or situations. She weighed 17lbs in 2011 and consistently was losing weight.  She is 8.66lbs now.  we...