Stacy & Spanky
Stay firm in your positive thoughts, making the best of all options. Your
love will see you through!
Long life and happiness to you both.
~Bonnie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stacy Zacher" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:31 AM
Subject: [Felvtalk] Spanky has large cell lymphoma
Hi everyone:
(cross posting on the lists we belong to).
Just a follow-up to the biopsy and post yesterday. I want to thank
everyone for all the help and support during this time. It means more than
you know. The vet called last night and the pathologist's analysis
confirmed what she initially thought -
Spanky has large cell lymphoma or she called it lymphoblastic. She thought
his blood results weren't bad for his status. She talked to the oncologist
about his case also and the onc. wants to see him tomorrow morning to
discuss chemo options since I want to try to treat this/ buy him some more
time.
I know the aggressive chemo protocol is more the IV chemo plus pill but
I'm wary of doing that to his body right now. I would really appreciate
thoughts on types of chemo for this type of lymphoma - large cell lymphoma
for his mediastinal cranial mass (maybe about 2cm now instead of 2.5cm
when we started prednisolone). He's not eating as well as he should either
and steadily losing weight even though he seems to eat overnight well and
I syringe food him too. We didn't test the cells to see if they T or B
cells.
The vet said it varies but they normally follow the UW Madison protocol
for treating this type - Cyclophosphamide, prednisolone and the
vincristine. I want him to have quality of life over suffering bad side
effects. I know someone wrote that the lymphoma makes them sicker than
chemo so I'm keeping that in mind as well. We discussed vincristine iv or
pill form or doing IV+pill. I'm just worried about aggressive treatment
since he's losing weight, weaker, FELV+, early HCM, and is not young
strong kitty. He's aged about 10 years in 1 year it seems!
So much to consider and so confusing! Please send us healing thoughts any
any advice you can before our appt tomorrow
morning.
I found an interesting chart on the various protocols from a vet site but
am not sure if I can post the link?
Purrs,
Stacy and Spanky
Re: Spanky - blood test/ultrasound - patiently waiting for biopsy re
Posted by: "stacy_zacher" [email protected] stacy_zacher
Wed Dec 1, 2010 3:17 pm (PST)
(cross posting on the lists we belong to).
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?),
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