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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
On Jul 11, 6:58*pm, Cheryl wrote:
I'm glad she came home and ate and her prognosis is good. You will know what to do. I know from your posts about Gnarley (SP?) that you learned from her, and we all do the first time we have a sick old cat. Boo is in good hands. -- Cheryl I agree with Cheryl. I hope her recovery is swift and complete! Candace |
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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
"Candace" wrote : I agree with Cheryl. I hope her recovery is swift and complete! Thanks Candace, for your good wishes. She's just her old self, you can't tell she's had surgery from her behavior, at all. No moping or extra sleeping, either. She was bright-eyed and staring holes in me as I made the coffee, waiting to be fed. (I always make the coffee and change water and such first, because feeding time is when I am most interesting to Boo, so I get to enjoy her company more, haha!) At this stage it would be very easy to believe that the little bit of surgery might be the end of it. How are your babies? You have not written about them in a while. |
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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
cybercat wrote:
snip very scary story It is very hard to imagine living without her. Maybe we will have her for a while longer. The girl with the boxer said he lived a whole year with no treatment. Thanks again to everyone for their concern and for listening. I don't sound terrified but this is the way *I* sound when I am terrified. When those we love depend upon us, blathering around in a panic is not helpful. My husband is very tenderhearted and really loves this cat. All prayers and purrs and good thoughts are so appreciated, Dr. Lewis might have opened her up and found her full of this stuff, you know? So I think they really help. Thank you. OMG what an ordeal you have been through! I'm so glad this was caught early and that you have such a caring and thorough vet. I will check in to see that biopsy result and pray it is the best possible news. Clean margins will be a GREAT indicator for her, regardless of the type of cancer they discover she has. I'm glad she pulled through the surgery so well and I hope she continues to feel okay. I'll keep you both in my thoughts and prayers. |
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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
"Lynne" wrote in message m... OMG what an ordeal you have been through! I'm so glad this was caught early and that you have such a caring and thorough vet. Thank you, Lynne, for your good wishes. I will check in to see that biopsy result and pray it is the best possible news. Clean margins will be a GREAT indicator for her, regardless of the type of cancer they discover she has. Do you think because it was small, or because the doctor said it was the size of a garden pea, that this means the margins are clean? Now that I think about it I expect that might be true. But she did say that it worried her the way it was adhering to Boo's muscle wall. I'm glad she pulled through the surgery so well and I hope she continues to feel okay. She's just the same old assertive girl! It's amazing. The stairs don't even bother her, and she has not messed with her stitches at all. I'll keep you both in my thoughts and prayers. It means a lot. She is such a character, and so beautiful with her velvety black coat and white bib and paws. One of the coolest things about Boo is that she is a "thinker." If you do something, there is almost always a pause, and a look on her face like she is considering the situation. It's hilarious. It ranges from, I come down and pet her and talk to her and she would rather not be bothered, and you can see a bubble appear over her head like, "Hmmmmm .. if I am very still and don't say anything, maybe she will go away" to, she comes in to the living room and we are watching something with a tray of snacks on the table, and she sits down, looks around, waits a while to let it all sink in, apparently decides we are there for a while, then sneaks upstairs like a commando and hoovers down Gracie's food. |
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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
cybercat wrote:
Do you think because it was small, or because the doctor said it was the size of a garden pea, that this means the margins are clean? Now that I think about it I expect that might be true. But she did say that it worried her the way it was adhering to Boo's muscle wall. Did you get the biopsy results yet? I looked for an update and couldn't find it. When I said clean margins will be a very good indicator, I meant if you hear that in the pathology report it will be very good to know and an indicator that perhaps the cancer has not spread. When a tumor is extracted, so is tissue around the tumor. That tissue is examined for cancer cells. If the cancer is fully contained within the tumor and there are no cancer cells in the tissue around the tumor, that is a "clean margin." (Think of the excised tissue as an egg. The margin is the egg white around a yolk, and the yolk is the cancerous tumor. If there is no yolk mixed into the white, it's a clean margin.) A doctor can't determine this, but the pathologist can and will. I'm hoping this is what you hear. Actually, I'm hoping you hear it isn't cancer at all and some odd, rare, but benign thing that won't be a problem ever again. It means a lot. She is such a character, and so beautiful with her velvety black coat and white bib and paws. One of the coolest things about Boo is that she is a "thinker." If you do something, there is almost always a pause, and a look on her face like she is considering the situation. It's hilarious. It ranges from, I come down and pet her and talk to her and she would rather not be bothered, and you can see a bubble appear over her head like, "Hmmmmm .. if I am very still and don't say anything, maybe she will go away" to, she comes in to the living room and we are watching something with a tray of snacks on the table, and she sits down, looks around, waits a while to let it all sink in, apparently decides we are there for a while, then sneaks upstairs like a commando and hoovers down Gracie's food. She is so precious, and clever. I know you treasure her. I'm anxious for good news! Hang in there!! |
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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
Lynne wrote:
Actually, I'm hoping you hear it isn't cancer at all and some odd, rare, but benign thing that won't be a problem ever again. Dangit, I went back and read your original thread which I had not fully read before. I just saw that the needle biopsy indicated round cell cancer and I am not finding any updates from you. Very worried here and keeping you in my thoughts. |
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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
Thanks for the update, and I'm glad she got through the surgery well.
Hugs to you and her. |
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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
On Jul 11, 10:33*pm, "cybercat" wrote:
"CatNipped" wrote in message ... Has anybody here heard from Nancy regarding "Boo"? *I'm starting to get really, really worried. *I used to have her email, but that got lost when I changed hard drives. She is doing well considering, thanks so much for your concern, Rene too. (Our cable was out beginning right after I last sent a post.) I had dropped her off at about 8:30 Thursday, and had written you las then. |
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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
"Lynne" wrote in message m... Lynne wrote: Actually, I'm hoping you hear it isn't cancer at all and some odd, rare, but benign thing that won't be a problem ever again. Dangit, I went back and read your original thread which I had not fully read before. I just saw that the needle biopsy indicated round cell cancer and I am not finding any updates from you. Very worried here and keeping you in my thoughts. Lynne, they did a biopsy and the doctor looked at it under the microscope that day, while we waited. She recognized that the cells were "suspicious" and when I went in the next morning for Boo's surgery, she had written "mostly round cell" on the chart. After the surgery, she sent the tissue to pathology to determine exactly what kind of round cell cancer it is, and said it would take a week. So we should be hearing tomorrow. I'll let you know right away, thank you for caring about us. |
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Update 2-- Ping Cybercat - Boo Update?
cybercat wrote:
Lynne, they did a biopsy and the doctor looked at it under the microscope that day, while we waited. She recognized that the cells were "suspicious" and when I went in the next morning for Boo's surgery, she had written "mostly round cell" on the chart. After the surgery, she sent the tissue to pathology to determine exactly what kind of round cell cancer it is, and said it would take a week. So we should be hearing tomorrow. I'll let you know right away, thank you for caring about us. You must be beside yourself. I'm praying for the absolute best possible report. I wish I could do more. |
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