More good vibes for Samantha please

I posted about the bump on Samantha's chin in another thread, but I wanted to start a separate thread, now that my "normal or not" question has been answered. Tomorrow morning at 9:15 I'm dropping her off to get the lump biopsied. I'm a nervous wreck and on the verge of tears right now. She's just over a year old, so I know that the chance of cancer is slim, but slim doesn't mean impossible . My poor little girl has just had so much wrong with her -it just seems never ending (I know this isn't my first post asking for good vibes to be sent her way), and I just want her to be healthy for once. I'm trying to prepare myself for the worst news, but I just can't seem to wrap my mind around "cancer" if thats the case. I'm hoping and praying that it turns out to be some kind of infection, or a benign tumor. I won't get the results tomorrow, so I know I'm also going to be a nervous wreck until I do get the results. So if you can send some good vibes, thoughts and prayers our way Samantha and I both would really appreciate it .

Prayers for your sweet little girl (and her human momma too).

Tons of vibes going your way... hoping for good biopsy results!

Lots of vibes for Samantha!

Did the vet offer an opinion of what he/she thinks is probable?

for little Samantha!!! please keep us posted.

Mega healthy for Samantha.

Tell the vet how scared you are in the hope that she'll rush the results through.

Is Samantha in Fur pics so we can see what she looks like?

I am keeping Samantha in my prayers.

Could it be a cyst of some kind? Hope it is easily removed and she is back to herself.

Sending LOTS of vibes that it's nothing serious hun.

I hope the test results for cancer come back negative! Let us know when you find out. Waiting is the worse thing!

Thanks everyone. Waiting is definitely the worst part. I dropped her off this morning and got a call a few hours ago saying she is awake from the biopsy surgery and resting and doing well. I am going to pick her up in about 30 minutes.

As far as what it is, I suppose it could be a cyst, or just an infection, or something not nearly as bad as a tumor. She had an abscess on her face a few months ago, but the vet is pretty sure this wasn't an abscess (and I guess I'll find out for sure when I go pick her up). This also isn't in the same place that her abscess was.

The vet also x-rayed her jaw today to see if anything is growing in her jawbone (tumor), so while I won't get the biopsy results back right away, I'm hoping she at least has some insight on what the X-ray looks like. It will be sent to a radiologist though for an official diagnosis.

When I took her in to have it looked at, the vet said that it felt like soft tissue swelling, which can be indicative of an infection or a tumor. I'm just hoping and praying that its not a tumor. The vet definitely suspects a tumor but since Samantha is only just over a year old, she's hopeful that her initial assessment is wrong.

When I got the call earlier saying that she was doing well, I was so hoping for some type of information, but it was the vet tech that called, not the doctor, and they don't give out information over the phone. I have to wait to talk to the doctor. I was really hoping for them to tell me that they opened it up and found all kinds of nasty pus and infection in there and not a tumor. Thats completely gross and disgusting I know, but this is the one time I would love to hear that it was some nasty infection. The open wound left by her abscess seriously made me queasy to look at after it was drained and cleaned last time, but I would give anything for that to be the case again now.

The biggest concern to me and the vet is that she's not showing any signs of not feeling well. I know that cats hide sickness very well, but Samantha doesn't. She's had several things wrong with her in her short life, and each time she has acted like she's sick or at least like something is bothering her. This time she's completely normal and happy, other than the lump on her chin. Normally, I'd be thrilled to have a cat acting healthy like she is, but since I know how she reacted to the abscess last time, it makes me think thats not the case this time. I hope I'm wrong though. Maybe its just in a spot where it doesn't bother her for some reason.

Anyway, thank you for the vibes. Sometimes I feel a little stupid asking for vibes and prayer on the internet, but it really does feel good to write it all down and its nice to know that there are people out there who care about their cats as much as I do.

I know someone asked for a picture, and I haven't posted one yet, but right now I have to get ready to go pick up my little girl. I will try to post a picture of her when I get back later. Here's hoping for some positive news from the vet in a little while!

vibes and more vibes...

for good news for both of you.

My thoughts and prayers are with you both, Brooklet425! Hope it's something easy and simple to address!

<<<hugs!>>>

AC

Good health

Well she's back...and I have some hope! Her jaw xray looks good. There's absolutely nothing that the vet can see to indicate that any tumor (cancer or not) has invaded the jaw bone. A radiologist is still going to look at it, but she seemed pretty firm in her belief that nothing was wrong with it.That makes me feel MUCH better because I did a lot of reading on squamous cell carcinoma in the jawbone and I was trying to prepare myself for that .

However, the bad news is that the lump is definitely a mass of some sorts, not an infection. She took 3 pieces of it to biopsy (i'm not entirely clear on why she didn't remove the whole thing today but it seems like she wants to be certain of what it is before doing a more involved surgery) and the lab results should be back some time next week.

Obviously, she can't diagnose what it is just by looking at it, but she said from the different types of cancer she has seen it does NOT look like squamous cell carcinoma. That of course, doesn't mean that its not, but that gives me some hope at least. She said that if she had to guess, she thinks it looks more like a fibroma which would be benign. So I don't want to get my hopes up based on the vet just looking at it, but I do feel slightly better than I did before. She said she would still want to completely remove a fibroma, because while they aren't malignant, they are still invasive. She did run through a few more options of what it could be - all malignant tumors, but she said she would be surprised if it was malignant because Sam is so young.

So I am hoping and praying that her assessments are correct! The vet clinic that I go to has 3 vets - all of them wonderful, but they all have different specific interests. I would trust any of them with my cats, but this particular one has a specific interest in critical care, and it was her initial assessments of one of my other cats that saved his life a little over a year ago. Thats not to say that the other 2 vets wouldn't have saved him, but I've noticed that the one who took care of Samantha seems to always jump to the worst conclusion, and therefore finds the problem quicker sometimes. So the fact that she's thinking it won't be malignant gives me some hope. Does that even make any sense? I might just be reaching for some hope to hold on to here.

I'm also hopeful that if it is malignant, the fact that its not in the jawbone might make it easier to remove or treat. I'm still going to be a nervous wreck until these results come in though, so please keep the good vibes coming!

Well it's sounding good so far!! I know when my vet said if Sophies was the benign tumour he said it would be better to cut out and get rid of it.

I know it's still worrying, but it's better news than you expected.

How is Samantha doing after her procedure?

Oh good so far then.....I do the same thing..Googling can be a bad thing too. We get ourselves so worried.

I hope Samantha comes through this. Being young, she has that on her side too.

I hope you will have good news - AND SOON!

My blue was just diagnosed with "cancer" - but my vet did a scrape, however he did not send anything off as a biopsy. He wants to remove places on Blue's neck, ear, and chin, but your post gives me hope that maybe the things are not cancer afterall. I didn't get to talk to the vet - just his tech and she said he wanted to remove them and they had mass cells. I asked her if that meant cancer and she said "he thinks it is some kind of skin cancer." So - wow - I am glad I read this! I hope neither your baby NOR mine have any spread or invasion of tissues from these things. (Blue's are move like flat places on his skin - they are flesh colored unless he digs at them, then they turn red and sometimes even bleed).

BlueRexBear - I just read your thread about Blue and I sincerely hope that whatever he has can be removed without it getting any worse. We still haven't gotten the biopsy results for Samantha back yet but I think I'm going to call tomorrow afternoon if I havent heard from the vet by then. Thank you all for the good vibes .