<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Hi Kathy.</font></font></div><p><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"></font></font> </p><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">We just had a lump removed from Phoebe's neck. She is 12 yrs old and developed this lump about a year ago. Lately it has gotten bigger so they biopsied it and there were some questionable cells that they said would most likely become malignant. They recommended it be removed. When they got in there the tumor was encapsulated and attached to the trachea which they removed easily from the trachea. The difficult part was that the tumor was being fed by blood vessels from her neck and they had to cut into these and reconnect them after getting the tumor out. It was not an easy surgery and there was a lot of blood loss during the surgery. But she has since done well and is healing nicely. Its been about 8 days since the surgery. The hard part at home was keeping her from scratching at the incision. The vet was worried she'd be too rough and possibly rip or tear one of those blood vessals open. We rolled a beach towel into a tootsie roll shape and she wore that around her middle like an inner tube. It kept her from lifting that hind leg forward to scratch under her chin or on her neck. It was a challenge because she would rub herself along the sofa until she could roll that towel over her hips and she'd step out of it. </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana"></font> </div><div><font face="Verdana">That is all I can tell you about it. Hopefully it will be a simple procedure for Jake</font></div><div><font face="Verdana"></font> </div><div><font face="Verdana">Pat</font></div>
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