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Hello fellow cat lovers! Sorry this is such a long post! Almost 2 weeks ago, I found something really weird on my kitty, Huckleberry (who is 7 years od). Here is what I was looking at on his front left leg
I freaked out... I called my regular veterinary clinic to make an appointment. They couldn't see him that day. So I called around and made an appointment at a different clinic. The doctor noted that there was "alopecia with dried serum".He looked at it under a black light for some kind of fungus. He summed it up to "allergic/bacterial dermatitis". He prescribed Huckleberry an antibiotic to be taken every 12 hours. The prognosis was good.
So a couple of days later I find the same kind of thing on his neck... much smaller, maybe 1/8 of the size as the one on his arm. So I make an appointment with my usual clinic. The receptionist asked if I had a preference on the doctor... I know the 3 vets who work there, and I don't have a preference. But I didn't know that 3 months ago they had been bought out by another clinic and now there are 7 vets (minus 2 of the 3 I knew.) Anyway, the vet I saw is saying that it may be cancer. She saw it and says "I don't like this, I don't like this at all.
She told me that she had only seen it once before (at the clinic that had taken over this one), on another orange/white cat named Patches, who was 10 years old. I forgot how she said she treated Patches... but she said that "the spot" went away but came back a month later, bigger. It spread to his back, and they had to put him down. The owner agreed to do a biopsy, for his own piece of mind, and it ended up being cancer. She told me that she regrets not treating it more aggressively.
So she tells me she wants to remove it surgically, and recommends a biopsy because she'd like to know what it is. The surgery would cost $429 and the biopsy would be $218. I was very agreeable through the whole visit, but became skeptical. I said to her "I don't mean to doubt you, I'm just wondering... if I would've been assigned to a different vet today, do you think they would come to the same conclusion?" And she said "You most likely would've seen Dr _____, yeah she would recommended the same thing. She was there with Patches as well..."
It definitely looks better.. it's not as tender or "raw" as it was... the fur is growing back.
When Huckleberry saw the last doctor (last Wednesday or Thursday), she highly recommended I make an appt for him to go into surgery sometime between Tuesday and Friday, of this week. It is something I can pay for... but not if it's not necessary. Should I get a second opinion?
I freaked out... I called my regular veterinary clinic to make an appointment. They couldn't see him that day. So I called around and made an appointment at a different clinic. The doctor noted that there was "alopecia with dried serum".He looked at it under a black light for some kind of fungus. He summed it up to "allergic/bacterial dermatitis". He prescribed Huckleberry an antibiotic to be taken every 12 hours. The prognosis was good.
So a couple of days later I find the same kind of thing on his neck... much smaller, maybe 1/8 of the size as the one on his arm. So I make an appointment with my usual clinic. The receptionist asked if I had a preference on the doctor... I know the 3 vets who work there, and I don't have a preference. But I didn't know that 3 months ago they had been bought out by another clinic and now there are 7 vets (minus 2 of the 3 I knew.) Anyway, the vet I saw is saying that it may be cancer. She saw it and says "I don't like this, I don't like this at all.
She told me that she had only seen it once before (at the clinic that had taken over this one), on another orange/white cat named Patches, who was 10 years old. I forgot how she said she treated Patches... but she said that "the spot" went away but came back a month later, bigger. It spread to his back, and they had to put him down. The owner agreed to do a biopsy, for his own piece of mind, and it ended up being cancer. She told me that she regrets not treating it more aggressively.
So she tells me she wants to remove it surgically, and recommends a biopsy because she'd like to know what it is. The surgery would cost $429 and the biopsy would be $218. I was very agreeable through the whole visit, but became skeptical. I said to her "I don't mean to doubt you, I'm just wondering... if I would've been assigned to a different vet today, do you think they would come to the same conclusion?" And she said "You most likely would've seen Dr _____, yeah she would recommended the same thing. She was there with Patches as well..."
It definitely looks better.. it's not as tender or "raw" as it was... the fur is growing back.
When Huckleberry saw the last doctor (last Wednesday or Thursday), she highly recommended I make an appt for him to go into surgery sometime between Tuesday and Friday, of this week. It is something I can pay for... but not if it's not necessary. Should I get a second opinion?
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