Good news - Rumble had a great two weeks and gained weight. 0.6 pounds YIPEE! That's great for a cat at his current weight. We must have found the correct balance between the enzymes on his food and the enzymes we mix into a slurry and shoot down his throat after each meal.
Bad news - They did an ultrasound of Rumble's abdomen to see how things were looking and our vet saw some free floating liquid that's not supposed to be there. He thinks it's coming from the pancreas and the cells do not look normal. There in the waiting room, in front of other people, he told me he thinks it is most likely cancer cells because they didn't look normal to him. They drained the liquid (about 5ccs) and are testing it for carcinoma cells and they will give me a call tonight or tomorrow.
Apparently, when the pancreas is diseased with cancer, it just crumbles and pieces dissolve and break off and just float around. So our vet thinks he has some cancer cells just floating around in his abdomen looking for an organ or wall to attach to. That's why pancreatic cancer is so bad and usually involves other organs. This sounds horrible and our vet said it is not good news.
He will increase Rumble's chemo by 10% since his body/blood seems to be tolerating it so well. We just started round 4 of 5. I was hoping to be done soon. He said we might also add another oral drug to be administered at home, but didn't explain any further.
He considers Rumble a success story, but I'm just not feeling it today. I went in with such high hopes because I knew he had a great two weeks and had put on weight. I watched a family of four today in the waiting room learn that their dog has some sort of pancreatic lymphoma and I broke down watching them break down. It hurts so much and I'm so tired of bad news.
Please send Rumble prayers and energy that these cells are anything in the world besides cancerous or that they respond well to the uppage of chemo. Thanks for thinking of us!
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