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I hate bad news
Lucky was acting pretty lethargic the last couple of days. Last night
he threw up several times so I took him in to the vet this morning. Lots of blood tests and x-rays later they diagnosed him with a liver problem, either infection or inflammation. I have the meds to treat that so it should be fine in a few days. The bad news was that the vet saw something on the abdominal x-ray at the forward edge so he did a chest x-ray. He found a fairly large tumor in one of the lungs. He's sending it off for a radiology consult but he thinks it's a primary lung tumor that probably hasn't metastasized. If it is malignant, surgery is the only treatment option. He isn't showing any symptoms of the tumor at this point. We'll have to see but with his age, 12, I don't know if that type of surgery will really help his quality of life or lengthen his survival time. Apparently he could live another year or two with the tumor depending on how aggressive it is. He might only get one or two years after the surgery too. Too many unknowns until we talk to an oncologist. Today is my wife's birthday. We're both pretty down right now. |
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I hate bad news
Major bummer.... My thoughts and prayers are with you.........
Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:56:15 -0500, Jim Manson wrote:
Lucky was acting pretty lethargic the last couple of days. Last night he threw up several times so I took him in to the vet this morning. Lots of blood tests and x-rays later they diagnosed him with a liver problem, either infection or inflammation. I have the meds to treat that so it should be fine in a few days. The bad news was that the vet saw something on the abdominal x-ray at the forward edge so he did a chest x-ray. He found a fairly large tumor in one of the lungs. He's sending it off for a radiology consult but he thinks it's a primary lung tumor that probably hasn't metastasized. If it is malignant, surgery is the only treatment option. He isn't showing any symptoms of the tumor at this point. We'll have to see but with his age, 12, I don't know if that type of surgery will really help his quality of life or lengthen his survival time. Apparently he could live another year or two with the tumor depending on how aggressive it is. He might only get one or two years after the surgery too. Too many unknowns until we talk to an oncologist. Today is my wife's birthday. We're both pretty down right now. I'm so sorry to hear this. Best wishes to you and your wife and to Lucky, whatever you find out and whatever you decide. We lost two really special dogs within 2 months of each other this summer and fall. It always sucks and you're never really prepared for it, even when you think you are. I hope you have a lot of quality time yet with Lucky. |
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Bad news, but too early to tell if its terrible news. Take it one day at
a time and hope for the best. You are in my thoughts. -- Bill Clodius los the lost and net the pet to email |
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"Jim Manson" wrote in message
... [snip] Too many unknowns until we talk to an oncologist. Today is my wife's birthday. We're both pretty down right now. Sorry to hear the bad news. Here's hoping for the best possible outcome. Paul and Muttley www.muttleydog.com |
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"Jim Manson" wrote in message
... We'll have to see but with his age, 12, I don't know if that type of surgery will really help his quality of life or lengthen his survival time. Apparently he could live another year or two with the tumor depending on how aggressive it is. He might only get one or two years after the surgery too. Too many unknowns until we talk to an oncologist. Today is my wife's birthday. We're both pretty down right now. I'm sorry to hear this. Wishing Lucky many more happy years. Ali |
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Jim Manson wrote in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:
Lucky was acting pretty lethargic the last couple of days. Last night he threw up several times so I took him in to the vet this morning. Lots of blood tests and x-rays later they diagnosed him with a liver problem, either infection or inflammation. I have the meds to treat that so it should be fine in a few days. The bad news was that the vet saw something on the abdominal x-ray at the forward edge so he did a chest x-ray. He found a fairly large tumor in one of the lungs. He's sending it off for a radiology consult but he thinks it's a primary lung tumor that probably hasn't metastasized. If it is malignant, surgery is the only treatment option. He isn't showing any symptoms of the tumor at this point. We'll have to see but with his age, 12, I don't know if that type of surgery will really help his quality of life or lengthen his survival time. Apparently he could live another year or two with the tumor depending on how aggressive it is. He might only get one or two years after the surgery too. Too many unknowns until we talk to an oncologist. Today is my wife's birthday. We're both pretty down right now. Sorry to hear that. Hopefully all will work out well. I've lucked up, or rather Aunti Mabel has. A non-metastizied cancer polyp was removed when she had her dental work done back in spring. Tests and scans done last week show no signs of issues. She's still a little under optimal weight but so close to it, only her age (we call it 15 come USA Thanksgiving, adoption month last year) makes me and her doggie Doc wish she'd add an extra 1/2 lb for 'health padding'. I hit the point of having to do her dental or risk losing her and the procedure was done at the same time while she was under. She had a 50/50 chance of full recovery and several years to go, or never waking up. Since her quality of life was highly impacted if we did not do it, we tried it. My thoughts at the time were that it was an expensive way to put my 'puppy' to sleep if that is what happened, but it gave her a chance. You are right, at a certain age, depending on health of dog and longevity of the type, common sense for their quality of life needs to be a factor combined with cost. -- |
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Jim Manson said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:
Too many unknowns until we talk to an oncologist. I'm very sorry. Been there. -- --Matt. |
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