[Dailydrool] Conley Updates

[Molly Thompson]

Bev
Great news regarding Conley.
Your advice is very timely. Tucker had an ultrasound today looking at his spleen. Found something in a kidney. We are awaiting pathology results. Maybe lymphoma. 
I will follow your advice and not settle for "we think"
Molly Thompson


Molly Thompson

> On Dec 19, 2017, at 3:44 PM, Beverly Szaton via Dailydrool <dailydrool at lists.dailydrool.org> wrote:
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> Ok. Here's the scoop. When all this began we knew Conley had a serious heart murmur and a valve prolapse. But he was acting so weird I thought maybe something else was going on and I took him in for a chest rad and a belly rad and we got no further than the chest. The Vet found a spot right near the heart that appeared to be congestion and so she put him on Lasix so he could pee excess fluid out.
> But the regular Vet wanted follow up so I took him back and when he saw the original chest xray he (and I ) thought it looked more like tissue-- like a mass-- and that it was probably hemangiosarcoma. 
> Therefore, thinking that he had cancer,and a fast and aggressive cancer at that, we spent a few very uncomfortable days before he went back yet another time for an expert to do an ultrasound and that is what we did yesterday morning.
> And they saw---nothing of import. The "mass" we thought we saw was smaller. The little spots on his spleen the same as they were back in March, no bigger. All in all it was a good report that I got today.
> NO CANCER! At least not hemangiosarcoma and not today.
> The moral of this story is: Do not settle for "we think" when you are diagnosing something serious. Go back and do it again with people trained for that particular test. Your family Veterinarian may not really be qualified to read an utrasound or examine that gob of tissue, no matter how much you love him/her. Hopefully the Vet himself will want to find an expert.
> Pay the money. This is not a time to argue about cost. If ever you need to spend it, it is finding out what is happening so that you can treat it correctly and make truly informed decisions. I would rather pay to find out that Conley is ok than spend one more day thinking he is not.
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> MomPerson (happy happy) to Conley. MertaLou & Doc
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