I'm so sorry to hear this, Michelle. I hope Simon's treatment will buy him more time with you.
tonya
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I am devastated, espcially since I just lost my dog Nubi a month ago to
cancer and my dog Fern currently has it, and because Simon is just 3 1/2 and such a
beautiful boy. he is in the hospital now getting supportive therapy and
starting chemo and steroids. Have not gotten the results of the bone marrow biopsy
yet so do not know the extent of the spread. The oncologist says best
prognosis if he responds to chemo is probably 6 months, and more likely 3-4.
Have any of you besides Belinda had an FeLV+ cat with lymphoma in the liver
and, if so, how did you treat it and what were the results? And Belinda, did
your cat with the liver cancer have FeLV? The oncologist says the FeLV makes
the prognosis worse. I had heard that it does not affect how cats respond to
chemo, but that it makes the cancer more likely to return quickly. Does anyone have any info or insight on this?
My other two positives who died of lymphoma almost two years ago did not get
chemo. I did prednisone only plus herbs and, toward the end, dexamethasone
shots. They each lived 3 months after diagnosis. I want to try chemo with Simon
but am worried about doing so as well. My dog Nubi got it and it was hard on
her and she died after just 4 months. My dog Fern is on an experimental
antiangiogenic drug with no side effects (she's in a study) and some supportive
herbs and is comfortable and it's been just over a year since diagnosis and her
prognosis was 2-6 months. I don't know if it is the experimental drug, the
herbs, or what, but it makes me wonder about doing something other than chemo
with my boy. But then she eats everything and it was stressful for my other two
cats when I gave them herbs because I had to pill and syringe them. Fern just
eats them with her meals. So it's different. Plus there ! is no experimental drug
for Simon, other than maybe the VO.
Anyway, just looking for insight and stories of similar diagnoses with
positives. I am having difficulty thinking of anything but him right now, and am
driving back to visit him in the hospital soon.
Michelle
