Hi Nina,
I will try to find City Kitty's records. I kept an up to date file on her (wish I had done all this with Bandy, too) but I haven't. I just have all his vet records as there has been so much..
City Kitty's all started with her vomiting all the time..she couldn't keep any food down at all..So when we finally went to a specialist, I think they could feel the mass in her abdomen so after regular blood test, they did exploratory surgery which was ok with me as I was new to all this..They had to sew her up as it wasn't operable or removable. Her WBC was very elevated so I guess they went from that as she didn't have a temp or any other signs of anything wrong..(infection, etc) The mass was so large that the food couldn't pass threw or very little did. I don't remember if they did a bone marrow, but they did on Bandy and no cancer cells were found..He had all of that at once..they shaved his abdomen for sonogram
and a small area in his shoulder for the bone marrow. He was under ISO, and when I picked him up that day for the ride home, you couldn't even tell he had been thru all those tests..He was in the vets office for over 7 hrs..She told me that the ISO they use to put them under doesn't really make them sleepy or anything..as I was worried that he would be sorta out of it, but he wasn't. So if you have to do that for Spencer, it should be ok.
Anyway, I will look for City's paper work to let you know what they did..All I really remember is that it was the blood work and the awful surgery she had to go thru ( which in the end could have been avoided). Like with Buster, if a node is enlarged, they can aspirate it and send it off to tell what type cells are in it..a much easier procedure.
Take care,
Kerry, Bandy and Inky
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