Update on Pyrite
Jan. 5th, 2009 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awfulhorridThank you all for the well wishes and healing thoughts. I wish I had better news. I really can't tell you how much I wish I had better news.
We got a call back from Dr. Fox at the AETC yesterday. He'd gotten the results of the blood work back and it showed signs of kidney and liver problems in conjunction with (or perhaps because of) everything else that's happening. He recommended an IV treatment be added to the other procedures he was getting today unless we wanted to bring him in last night in which case they could start it earlier. Since earlier is better and likely to be more effective, we packed him up last night and took him to the AETC around 22:30. It hurt to leave him there, of course, but I knew they could look after him better there if something went wrong than we could at home.
Our call this morning ... well, the good news is that he's comfortable, purring loudly and being affectionate to everyone who comes near him. Yep, that's my beautiful charming Pyrite kitty alright. The bad news is that he's already accumulating more fluid on the lungs and the ultrasound shows the mass on the spleen is pretty large. They took the aspirate of the spleen, but have to wait for the lab results which should be sometime this afternoon at the earliest. They may not be able to determine if it's definitely cancer or not, but if it's indeterminate the next step would be a biopsy ... which would involved putting him under and he's not really in good enough shape for that. (The words "he's in bad shape" were used at least twice in a fairly short conversation.) I know some other phrases were used to describe problems with his lymphatic system and indication in his spleen of internal bleeding in the past few weeks, but I was a bit numb by that point and really crying entirely too much to absorb it all.
At this point, I guess it's just a matter of time. He's still at the AETC right now. We're going to wait for the final test results to come in and talk to the doctor again, but I'm really out of hope at this point.
For those that want to see, I've put his pictures on Flickr into a single set. The caption on the first is "Pyrite Loves Everyone" and I think that's about as good a summary of him as I could ever give.
We got a call back from Dr. Fox at the AETC yesterday. He'd gotten the results of the blood work back and it showed signs of kidney and liver problems in conjunction with (or perhaps because of) everything else that's happening. He recommended an IV treatment be added to the other procedures he was getting today unless we wanted to bring him in last night in which case they could start it earlier. Since earlier is better and likely to be more effective, we packed him up last night and took him to the AETC around 22:30. It hurt to leave him there, of course, but I knew they could look after him better there if something went wrong than we could at home.
Our call this morning ... well, the good news is that he's comfortable, purring loudly and being affectionate to everyone who comes near him. Yep, that's my beautiful charming Pyrite kitty alright. The bad news is that he's already accumulating more fluid on the lungs and the ultrasound shows the mass on the spleen is pretty large. They took the aspirate of the spleen, but have to wait for the lab results which should be sometime this afternoon at the earliest. They may not be able to determine if it's definitely cancer or not, but if it's indeterminate the next step would be a biopsy ... which would involved putting him under and he's not really in good enough shape for that. (The words "he's in bad shape" were used at least twice in a fairly short conversation.) I know some other phrases were used to describe problems with his lymphatic system and indication in his spleen of internal bleeding in the past few weeks, but I was a bit numb by that point and really crying entirely too much to absorb it all.
At this point, I guess it's just a matter of time. He's still at the AETC right now. We're going to wait for the final test results to come in and talk to the doctor again, but I'm really out of hope at this point.
For those that want to see, I've put his pictures on Flickr into a single set. The caption on the first is "Pyrite Loves Everyone" and I think that's about as good a summary of him as I could ever give.
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Date: 2009-01-05 06:56 pm (UTC)If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.
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Date: 2009-01-05 07:07 pm (UTC)I am SO sorry you have to be going through this.
I love you!
*HUGS*
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Date: 2009-01-06 03:24 am (UTC)Call me if you need to talk. I don't care the hour.
-L.
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Date: 2009-01-06 04:04 am (UTC)*sneaky fox goes back to work*
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