Russ is taking Duncan to our holistic vet today. His lumps (there are 4 now) are getting a little bigger. I want to get Dr Bamford's opinion on the consistancy of the lumps. They feel squishy to me, which is inconsistant with liposarcoma.
I feel strangely calm about all this, not like the first round. I chalk this up to:
1. Complete Denial
2. Acceptance of the Inevitable
OR
3. An Instictive Notion that It's Not Cancer.
At any rate, I feel our treatment options are narrow. Surgery is not a possibility. And given Duncan's kidneys, I'm not sure chemo or radiation would be good for him. The most curious thing is that the tumors came back about 2 inches or more distal to the surgery. Given that he had remarkably clean, wide margins, it just seems odd.
I had the vet reread the X-rays from August. He verified that there was absolutely no sign of cancer as of August 23. My regular vet has been very hands off, not really recommending treatment probably because he's reading that I'm not receptive to it.
Well, I'll let you know what Dr Bamford says.
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