Re: Shelby - Tumor

[Lernermichelle]

I am pulling for you and Shelby.  I am so anxious about Shelby just from these emails, as it brings me back to what happened with Simon, Josephine, and Buddy.  I think you should ask the lymphoma list serve folks about surgery.  But I do not remember any of them ever mentioning their cats getting anything removed surgically.   One thing you should know is that intestinal lymphoma is one of the lymphomas that tends to respond better to chemotherapy.  Simon had it in his liver and spleen, which responds less, and it had moved into his bone marrow by the time he got diagnosed, making it even worse, but he did respond to chemo and steroids initially, and then again later when he stopped responding to the earlier drugs he responded well to something called CCNU, and lived for 2 months, much of it very good.  If Shelby is earlier on in the lymphoma and it is intestinal lymphoma, I would hope and expect (if I ever dared to expect anything) that she would respond better, faster, and for longer.   Prayers and thoughts to you both, Michelle In a message dated 4/8/05 10:40:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i just joined.  i'll see what else i can find out. thank you so much.  i hate sitting around doing nothing when i know my kitty could be getting treatment