Better to follow through with the ultrasound than to cancel it and his symptoms reappear for you to just have to re-schedule it again. I know, I realize, it is very tempting to cancel, but... Even if for now the symptoms are 'gone', that doesn't mean than an ultrasound won't be of value. If there is something going on involving his digestive system and/or other organs, it will show up whether or not there are symptoms currently going on.
Well I got the ultrasound results back but I can't figure out what the vet is trying to say or if I need to do anything. The vet called me but I thought her explanation was very lawyer like and I couldn't get out of her what the import was of what she was trying to say. Ultimately everything was "normal" but for the fact that she said the lymphnodes were enlarged
It also said
I asked her what that meant and she really was vague.. she said it could be cancer but it also could be inflammation etc. Only a biopsy could tell about cancer. But honestly I don't know about doing that.. when ultimately I think it could end in putting the cat down. I also don't want to something that might not really even tell me anything more.
That could have been my fault. On the forms I selected I wanted a call before they did anything but the ultrasound.... they didn't call but perhaps they took that to mean nothing else was authorized. I mentioned my cat can be a handful and he was a little more animated on Tuesday due to lack of food so perhaps that was an issue. As usual I found them utterly unhelpful. They told me my cat would be ready at 2... no one called. I drove there at 3 and said, where is my cat ? And they were like oh he is ready. I had to drive there because I had a work related thing at 4 and it is a 1/2 hour drive. I am really not sure what happened. As usual the vet wanted to talk on the phone and I listened but then said, can I have the records and she sent them after we got off the phone and we haven't talked since. As you know, I have to get the records before I talk to these people because the records always seem to be very different than what they are talking about on the phone.
It only dawned on me later that I did that to myself. The forms where not clear that was what I was doing. I was basically concerned they were going to get fed up with my cat being fractious and sedate him and that would be difficult. The ultrasound person was lined up with several patients so it was a conveyor belt situation.
Sedation, had it been needed, probably would have been something 'harmless' like butorphanol (they gave that to Feeby with her first ultrasound - nothing was needed for the second one when they did the FNA).
See now, that is my concern. I just can't keep spending money like this. I think I am done for the moment. I will see what happens over the next few months.
Don't blame you. Feeby's first ultrasound was in August of last year. I wanted until December for the second one. And, yes I will have her go through another, looking for any new changes, in another month or so. Once that is completed and we don't have an answer, I will be done. Not so much the money, but the fact that currently everything else going on with her doesn't really point to lymphoma.
Got it.. she basically said what I expected. Enlarged nodes could mean localized inflammation or cancer (doesn't necessarily mean Lymphoma). There is just no way to know without testing the cells.
It has been almost a week and no estimate. Humn...
A lot of cats, particularly older ones seem to want to eat frequently, not sure why. Feeby 'munches' all the time - but, it might only be a bite or two each time.
Well he got me up from bed and gave out a cry like he usually does before vomiting. But I gave him some dry food and that seemed to hold it off. If I can hold him off from throwing up for a week that will be major progress.
