it is officially the future

[sine]

when people or pets i love are sick, i google. that's how i cope. last night, i fed google some phrases from the three-sentence endoscopy description they gave us (i have no idea when we'll get the real results

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[sheyeblaze]

I think about that, too. I don't like to imagine living without the information that is available through my computer...

[bojjie]

one of our cats had a scope last year because of his chronic vomiting.

the result came back saying 'severe inflammatory bowel disease or early cancer'

they did some extra tests but were never able to tell us which it was.

so for the last 7 or so months he has been on prednisolone daily and chemo tablets twice a week

they said the treatment was probably the same either way, but they treat us under the oncology part of the specialist centre and they say his diagnosis is 'low grade lymphoma'

anyway, this probably not exactly what you wanted to hear. but i guess the positive side of it was that he doesn't vomit nearly as much, and he is still seems well 7 months later and is pretty happy.

however, of course, this could all be completely irrelevant to your kitty.

i do hope he is ok and that they find a treatment that works for him.

meanwhile, i must find that book and see what it says about low grade lymphoma :P

[sine]

thank you for this comment. it's low-grade lymphoma. they're starting him on a chemo drug; i'm not sure if multi-drug chemo is good for this or not. it's encouraging that your cat is doing so well, and i'm so incredibly glad you posted this.

the gastro one is at http://www.scribd.com/doc/22403335/Handbook-of-Small-Animal-Gastroenterology

i also found this book, which i'm going to obsessively pore over when i get home tonight:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22365919/Small-Animal-Clinical-Oncology