Hi everyone: I was able to get Spanky in to the internal med specialist/oncologist this morning. She reviewed his xrays and did an ultrasound and said Spanky has a mediastinal 3cm mass in front of his heart. This is what is causing the fluid. She said there isn't that much fluid actually it is more the mass pushing on everything. They offered to drain the fluids but she didn't think it was causing any major distress at the moment. She said the mass was not consistent with what lymphoma looks like but was more globular and they could take a sample and send it in but I elected not to put him through that. If it is a tumor, it is a tumor.
She said I can give rutin but she didn't think that would help this type of fluids. she recommended I stop giving him immune support and give prednisolone to try to shrink the mass and give him some breathing room. I know about all the issues that come with giving him pred being felv with no immune system but my gut says try it. She said if I didn't try it, he could have a few days and more fluid, if I try it and it works and offers him more comfort for now great, if I try it and he gets CHF, he can be tapped or theb we know it just may not work. In any case, I didn't get him tapped and will just have to see how he'll do on the pred. Also I could do the coq10 still. She said his heart looked good on the ultrasound but of course I have to watch his breathing. He was diagnosed as early-HCM and last ultrasound he had showed no change in the status so I have fingers crossed. If I don't try it, I think he will have only days. If I do try it and it works he will have a bit of quality maybe. If I try it and he goes into CHF I know he has hours. Either way I think it is all a crapshoot at this point. Thanks to everyone on the lists for support and advice. Spanky and Stacy [email protected] _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
