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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 kept taking her in and they couldn't find anything wrong. some times had urinary issues and was on antibiotics but still consistently losing weight.
finally we had the vet take some fluid out in the throat mass area and there was nothing out of the ordinary. we were given the cancer speech and putting her down or doing a biopsy and sending it in to the university to see what it is exactly. we decided to do a biopsy for a few reasons.
One she is active. she doesn't mope around and act like she doesn't want to do things. very agile and jumps around on counters, etc. so body wise seems to be OK.
and Two, we finally switched her to wet cat food and she ate that for awhile but when we switched her to baby food she DEVOURED it. i mean 4 jars a day and ate it all. It just seemed like she didn't want to eat solid type food (maybe it hurt going down her throat) so we knew she was hungry and her appetite was there. she even gained almost a half a lb in a week. she used to weigh 8.3 and the next week (day of surgery) she weighed 8.66.
Her complete symptoms are below.
1. constant puking (at least once a day at one point)
2. peeing on carpet (not like her)
3. consistent weight loss (even though she was starving!) - wouldn't eat dry food and barley wet food but devoured baby food)
4. dandruff/rugged coat and she constantly picked at her fur and pulled it out
5. felt lump on her throat but touching it never seemed to bother her
so today the vet surgeon said the xrays came back clean. there was nothing at all in her lungs and instead of just the biopsy he just wanted to get it out completely. We opted for that. So he said he thinks he got it all out but there was ALOT of fluid in it. he had to drain it first and then surgery remove it. They showed it to us but they are going to send the entire thing to the university to see exactly what we are dealing with here. we are being optimistic.
Oh and when she got home she RAN to the kitchen and jump up the counter for baby food. she about took off my wifes hand pouring it in.
I'll update next week on what we find out and our next steps. PS - the surgery costs and sending it in were $475 in case others wanted to know for comparing.
i know during the process of all this i was googling the symptoms and noticed a lot of information on forums from other people so thought i would share our story.
She weighed 17lbs in 2011 and consistently was losing weight. She is 8.66lbs now. we kept taking her in and they couldn't find anything wrong. some times had urinary issues and was on antibiotics but still consistently losing weight.
finally we had the vet take some fluid out in the throat mass area and there was nothing out of the ordinary. we were given the cancer speech and putting her down or doing a biopsy and sending it in to the university to see what it is exactly. we decided to do a biopsy for a few reasons.
One she is active. she doesn't mope around and act like she doesn't want to do things. very agile and jumps around on counters, etc. so body wise seems to be OK.
and Two, we finally switched her to wet cat food and she ate that for awhile but when we switched her to baby food she DEVOURED it. i mean 4 jars a day and ate it all. It just seemed like she didn't want to eat solid type food (maybe it hurt going down her throat) so we knew she was hungry and her appetite was there. she even gained almost a half a lb in a week. she used to weigh 8.3 and the next week (day of surgery) she weighed 8.66.
Her complete symptoms are below.
1. constant puking (at least once a day at one point)
2. peeing on carpet (not like her)
3. consistent weight loss (even though she was starving!) - wouldn't eat dry food and barley wet food but devoured baby food)
4. dandruff/rugged coat and she constantly picked at her fur and pulled it out
5. felt lump on her throat but touching it never seemed to bother her
so today the vet surgeon said the xrays came back clean. there was nothing at all in her lungs and instead of just the biopsy he just wanted to get it out completely. We opted for that. So he said he thinks he got it all out but there was ALOT of fluid in it. he had to drain it first and then surgery remove it. They showed it to us but they are going to send the entire thing to the university to see exactly what we are dealing with here. we are being optimistic.
Oh and when she got home she RAN to the kitchen and jump up the counter for baby food. she about took off my wifes hand pouring it in.
I'll update next week on what we find out and our next steps. PS - the surgery costs and sending it in were $475 in case others wanted to know for comparing.
i know during the process of all this i was googling the symptoms and noticed a lot of information on forums from other people so thought i would share our story.