Well, there is an amendment to the kitty’s progress. Apparently, when they told me that the test results were back, they didn’t mean all of them. Vet called me on Friday afternoon and said that one of the tests came back with higher numbers than it had the first time. He has elevated Lymphocytes, which apparently means “there is more potential for it to be Lymphosercoma (cancer)”. She couldn’t say if it was with certainty, just that it has more potential. The Vet is really not very good at listening to me or answering my questions. She has been (it looks like to me anyway) horrified that we won’t let her do a biopsy. He is still too weak for one thing, the incision would be from throat to pelvis and it costs $800+. That seems like enough reasons to me. The biopsy is the only way apparently to be absolutely certain what we are dealing with, but we are still treating like it is inflamed bowel. On Friday, we went in to pick up supplies, and waited around for her to come out of her last appointment so that we could talk to her. She seems to be tired of talking to us, but we just need all of the facts on things before we decide what we are doing. If I am going to do something as irrevocable as put my cat down, I want to be damned sure that we have no other viable options.
We had actually decided when he was in Pet ER that we would not be able to properly care for him if it was Inflamed Bowel, and we didn’t want him to go through cancer. But we have wanted to give him the opportunity to spit in Fortune’s face and get better.
The prognosis for the cancer (and I may have said this in an earlier post) is IF we can get his weight up, and IF we can get him eating on his own and IF we do all the right things drug-wise, he has a 15% or so chance of going into remission for 6-8 months and a 2% chance of complete remission. Not very good odds.
But he is acting better all the time. He has put is paws on my thigh to be picked up several times today, and he has not done that in at least a month. He has eaten about half a (small) can of canned food on his own today, and his total food so far is above 130cc. Considering that the first couple of days he was home last week he was at 7cc per day, that is really good.
I think for now we are going to keep trying. If he starts to act like he is in pain, then it will be time. Maybe he will be in the 2%.
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