I'll try to keep this short.........About a week ago we noticed our indoor/outdoor cat wasn't feeling well. She is 3 years old. Basically she was lethargic and no appetite. Took her to regular vet one evening and he noticed a lump under her jaw closer to the ear. He did a needle aspirate and just looked under a microscope and he thought it looked bacterial. She also had a fever of 105. She got a shot of Ketofen and liquid clavamox. The shot helped her fever because she seemed back to normal.
The next morning she was back to being lethargic. We kept giving the clavamox to see if the antibiotics would start working and maybe clear up an infection. After 2 days of no improvement and little to no eating, I took her to the E-vet. Her temp was still high over 104 and preliminary thought a swollen salivary gland. She was admitted over night and testing began....... X-rays, Ultrasounds, Blood work, needle aspirates. She's been hospitalized for nearly 4 days now and her fever has only come down once with medication.
A second small lump was found the second day below the larger first one. Liver function and kidney functions showed normal on tests. Blood work only revealed high white blood cells and slight anemia. Ultrasound was performed last night and showed slight enlargement of the spleen and also some small lympnodes around the stomach, so they took a sample from the spleen and that test wasn't conclusive enough to make a diagnosis. All tests have been inclusive in being able to diagnose lymphoma
This morning they received a test back they have been waiting for to hopefully tell them more if its lymphoma. That came back inconclusive. So we decided on surgery to remove the lymphnodes in her neck, as I typed this, Doctor called and said surgery went well and the lymph nodes looked infectious NOT cancerous!! but a biopsy would be done. This would explain the high fever she has had that doesn't seem to break. Doctor thinks the fever should be gone after removal of those nodes another reason for the surgery. Lets hope so.
What a roller coaster this has been. We just want her to feel better and whatever the diagnosis ends up being we'll go from there. I'm am HOPING she has an infection that just needs some powerful antibiotics (Although she has been on 2 during her stay at the hospital) and that dang fever just won't break. She has had no vomiting or diarrhea, just fever, lethargy (probably from fever) and loss of appetite.
Anybody seen or experienced something like this?? Any thoughts? Lets all hope its not cancer
The next morning she was back to being lethargic. We kept giving the clavamox to see if the antibiotics would start working and maybe clear up an infection. After 2 days of no improvement and little to no eating, I took her to the E-vet. Her temp was still high over 104 and preliminary thought a swollen salivary gland. She was admitted over night and testing began....... X-rays, Ultrasounds, Blood work, needle aspirates. She's been hospitalized for nearly 4 days now and her fever has only come down once with medication.
A second small lump was found the second day below the larger first one. Liver function and kidney functions showed normal on tests. Blood work only revealed high white blood cells and slight anemia. Ultrasound was performed last night and showed slight enlargement of the spleen and also some small lympnodes around the stomach, so they took a sample from the spleen and that test wasn't conclusive enough to make a diagnosis. All tests have been inclusive in being able to diagnose lymphoma
This morning they received a test back they have been waiting for to hopefully tell them more if its lymphoma. That came back inconclusive. So we decided on surgery to remove the lymphnodes in her neck, as I typed this, Doctor called and said surgery went well and the lymph nodes looked infectious NOT cancerous!! but a biopsy would be done. This would explain the high fever she has had that doesn't seem to break. Doctor thinks the fever should be gone after removal of those nodes another reason for the surgery. Lets hope so.
What a roller coaster this has been. We just want her to feel better and whatever the diagnosis ends up being we'll go from there. I'm am HOPING she has an infection that just needs some powerful antibiotics (Although she has been on 2 during her stay at the hospital) and that dang fever just won't break. She has had no vomiting or diarrhea, just fever, lethargy (probably from fever) and loss of appetite.
Anybody seen or experienced something like this?? Any thoughts? Lets all hope its not cancer
