Thanks to everyone for all the purrayers and sending healing thoughts for
Spanky. I'm still waiting for the vet to get his biopsy results back and call
me. She said it could be today or tomorrow. We got there at 9:30am yesterday,
they did a blood panel, quick ultrasound to see if the mass was still there. It
was :-(.
Regarding his blood test results - everything except his WBC and related counts
were normal last time (about a month ago). This time his liver values are
elevated slightly AST is 55 (range 14-54), ALT is 147 (range 26-128)(from
pred?), wbc is up from 2400 to 6(from pred?), phosphorus seems very low at
2.2(range 2.7-7.5) (which I've read isn't really an issue?) and his Red blood
cells (4.86 and range is 5.8-11.00) and hematocrit (was 32 last time, now 26.1
and range is 28-47)are down again just below normal. Also low were the
lymphocyte absolute# at 0.31 (range 1.00-7.90) and eosinophil absolute# at 0.00
(range 0.10-2.00). It says rare giant platelets are present.
In the vet's report, all it says is that she did the fine needle aspirate and
also took fluids from his chest for analysis. The slides she reviewed did have
concerning cells that are most likely "lymphoma" but there are some other cells
she's not sure of without the pathologist looking at them. She said from the
ultrasound the tumor shrank about 30-40% from the prednisolone but it was still
there. So that wasn't a good sign to her. Isn't that a good thing if the tumor
shrinks? How long does it take to eradicate it if prednisolone alone would do
that or is that unlikely?
So we are just waiting. Spanky did so well (they had to sedate him for the
procedure) and was there all day. I picked him up and he gobbled food and drank
water and was wound up. He finally settled down and rested.
How long can he stay on prednisolone? He's been on it a week today and
tolerates it very well. He's just so thin now - down to 8.25 lbs from 8.8 last
week (maybe due to fluids being removed?).
Based on what she finds the type of tumor he has, I'll go from there as far as
what kind of treatment. I guess I am wondering how long he would have with just
prednisolone, or if we did leukeran and pred or the vincristine/pred. I was
looking at the route with the least side effects given his felv+ status. Then
again, I am entirely speculating that he has lymphoma and still not sure if he
does or what type.
If anyone has any ideas to try to help the liver values - I posted in the past
about adenosyl and not sure about milk thistle...but had never had to use
either on him yet.
He's on 5mg of prednisolone 2x a day, 250 mg rutin 2x a day (to try to reduce
fluids in his chest), 15mg CoQ10 per day, 1ML of pet-tinic 2x a day currently.
Thanks so much for reading my ramblings and thanks again for all your support.
Stacy and Spanky
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