I had my Dublin to the vet today for full bloodwork. Though I only heard the results on the phone, it apparently looked pretty good. His red blood cells were just below the normal range (29 with 30 as the low end of normal) -- the vet is going to research the protocols for helping to bring it up and check with his supplier about Immuno-regulin. His white cells were low normal. Everything related to organ function was good.
The bad news is that when he was inspecting Dublin's mouth (he has just *awful *gingivitis even though he had a dental six weeks ago and I've been using Maxiguard gel every day, which my vet thinks is the best product) he found he has a bleeding growth on his gum. So now we have surgery scheduled for Tuesday to remove it for biopsy. The vet did seem fairly optimistic that it could well be other things than a malignancy (squamous cell carcinoma being the most common source of cat oral tumors :( ) -- in particular he said something about how if they didn't get all of the root during one of his ten dental extractions the week before I adopted him (done by another vet) that could cause such problems. Meanwhile, he got an antibiotic injection to hopefully help clean things up in there. Sigh, sure hope my baby is OK -- and not too thrilled about the huge expenses so soon. And I'm kicking myself -- after researching here I meant to ask about testing for hemobartonella as a possible cause of anemia, but totally forgot when the gum business cropped up. I guess we could test when he has the surgery. Meanwhile, he eats vigorously and is very lively, galloping back and forth across the house with his "brother" C.J.!
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