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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2003-06-11 19:33:27 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: Chiclet: it looks more like she has JL
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
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Tomorrow Chiclet will have her ultrasound and if she is up to it she'll have a core biopsy done unless the vet thinks that she is in too bad shape to do that, or if he thinks she is doing well enough to tolerate completley having that node pulled, so maybe more will be learned soon.
We know that it is extreme long shot but if it is lymphoma we are hoping to not find tumors in the ultrasound, or to find few enough and small enough ones that we can try a chemo protocol just in case it mgiht give her a chance.
We hope that whatever more can be learned will be learned with her surviving; we do realize the chances of that if this is JL are pretty well non-existant, but for now we need to hope and try since she is still resonably comfortable.
Oh, she has learned how to walk a very little on that swollen leg (node and are around it both swollen and tender) and she seems to be pround of that and to like that she is cleaner usually (not always) as a result.
We've set up the master bathroom for her and moved her to there which will be more accessible and better for all than the front bathroom in the day and sick cage at night.
She has learned to use the tiles and the cold porcelain to cool herself (and we have the a.c. on, of course, and have plenty of bedding for when she is feeling cold.
Because she is so tired her food and her water that are left out (as oppossed to what she gets while we hug her) now are being gvien is small shallow saucers that in other uses are normally the lids of microwavable Nordicware mugs. They are incredibly handy.