We're home!

with pain medicine and antibiotics.  So I just got her to settle down on the bed with her blanket on her.  Whenever we go to the vet and she is gone from home for more than an hour, when she gets home she has to case the joint.  It's like she has to verify that she is in the right place and that everything is where its supposed to be.  This goes on for about an hour.  I'm sure that she is pretty sore now because having that huge bandage on did not stop her from jumping on the bed and then the sofa, getting down was not as easy, I had to assist.  But I can't stop her, she can't rest until she is convinced that all is OK.  And no eating goes on during this time either.

So now that that is accomplished, she is on the bed and resting easy with me checking on her every 10 minutes or so for now and she just had a few temptations.

Next Saturday she gets her bandage changed and the Saturday after that, the stitches come out, then we take it from there.

They fashioned a pink kitty cat as a decoration on her bandage

Waiting....

The surgeon called me around 1:30pm and Honey was about to go into surgery so we are waiting now for him to call when she is done which should be soon.

This is Honey's surgeon Justin Uhl

So the Oncologist, Dr. Tu just called and told me that the surgeon will call soon.  She told me they found another bump up her leg when they shave her leg.  it was under the skin unlike the other one, so they removed it and sent it to the lab.  The also removed the little tiny bump on her ear that I took her in to have looked at some time ago.  here

She is out of surgery. 

The surgeon finally called.  He said that the main tumor was very encapsulated and he took it off up the the paw pad on that side and her one toe and part of the dew claw.  He was not able to get a good margin on the paw pad side.  They will not cut into the main big paw pad because when they do  the animal will wind up not using the foot, so the paw pad has to stay intact.  She is resting comfortably right now and can possibly come home around noon tomorrow, she is on major pain medication right now.  The pathology report will come back sometime next week.  I am so relieved but really missing my baby right now.

Friday Morning

I just dropped Honey off at the vets and am at work.  I am a mess.  Honey, well I can only imagine.  She barely got to eat last night because she was a bit freaked out when we got home, but she slept on the bed with me for awhile last night and ate a lot of temptations before we went to bed.

They will call me today.  I and they do not know the exact time of her surgery today, so we will wait.

Thank you all for all your purrs and kindness.  I will have to go to bed tonight without my baby as they will be keeping her overnight.

As I keep telling Honey, We will get through this because we have each other and love each other.

Thank you all again,
Carla

We are home now

Honey goes back for surgery in the morning.  Tomorrow Honey will have as much of the tumor removed as possible, and 2 two toes.   We are calling it a 2-toe-ectomy.  There is no cancer showing up anywhere else in her body.  Depending on the pathology test returned from this tumor, she might need to have radiation treatments.  There is a possibility that this sarcoma is not cancerous, but could be a inflammatory issue (these do cause a concentration of spindle cells to form).  This is because this is a very rare occurrence in cats to have a sarcoma that isn't an injection site sarcoma (ISS).  Only 7% for cat to have this kind of sarcoma(non ISS).

So Honey will spend the night in the hospital Friday night and come home sometime on Saturday.  The labs will take 3-7 days to return.  possible radiation would start 2 weeks out from surgery, if necessary.

Honey is not a happy camper.  She went thru a slew of tests today, got part of her belly shaved and now has to return to the vets at oh-dark hundred tomorrow morning.

Honey is at the Vet right now

They are running a bunch of tests.  Where I thought or hoped that this could turn out to be not as huge as I thought, the Dr. said that a tumor on the foot could result from cancer in other major parts of the body, like the lungs or other organs.  The tests,  I believe are part of what they term as "staging" the cancer.  Then they know what they are dealing with so they can decide what is the best treatment.

My poor baby, they told me not to feed her since midnight, I bet she is starving right now.  But I have a bag of treats in my purse for when I go and pick her up in a few hours.

Well...the LOL was short lived

The vet called less than an hour ago and told us that it is a soft tissue sarcoma.  I called the liaison for the Oncologist so she can call me tomorrow to set up an appointment.

Update: We have an appointment at 2pm on Thursday with the Oncologist.

LOL...to make us all smile

Still Waiting........

for the pathology report.  They must have had Columbus day off.  Mommie and Honey still lubbins each ofur.

Good Morning

First we would like to thank efurrywun fur yor purrs and support.  We can't tell yoo how much it means to us.  See dat cute paw wif the 2 orinj toes, dats da foot wif the tumor, see it bulging out on the left.

We had a gud nites sleeps last nite, prolly becuz we are both mentally and physically eggsauted, this has been our world since Thursday night wen mommie furst saw the tumor.

Mommie haz bin reading up on things so that she can no wat qwestshuns to ask wen the time comes and possibly wat approach to take.

I feel guds today and already ate and drank and used the potty like nermal, now dat my tummy is not upset from the icky medicines.

Mommie told me that before we do anything she wants me to talk to Paulina.  So we will do dat when we find out what our options are.

Frum Mommie:  I'm the one that was supposed to get cancer, not my baby.  Cancer runs in my Dad's side of the family.  My dad died from non-hodgkins lymphoma 10 years ago.  Me having cancer would be so much easier for me to deal with and Honey would take care of me.

P.M. update

The doctor was able to do a needle biopsy and get enough cells to send out for pathology.  She looked at it herself thru the microscope and saw no infection but saw "Spindle Cells".  Spindle Cells = Cancer.  Before we did this she commented that because of where the tumor is they probably could not remove it and get enough clear margins around it which would mean possible amputation of the limb.

Nothing is set in stone at this point.  We will wait for the lab results hopefully on Monday and I have Monday off. I am besides myself........

p.s.  They gave her an antibiotic shot which means no more squirty in the mouth and she started eating again and acting like her normal beautiful selfie.

Still needing purrs

Well we are going to the vet again today and not waiting till Monday.  The size of the tumor has not reduced any and Honey is hardly eating.  I went and got some pain medication late yesterday  but that did not help with her eating.  I just want someone to tell me what this is so we can deal with it.  It is swollen and pushing her dewclaw out.

Purrs needed

So I am home today.  Last night I was sick with an ear and sinus infection.  probably from cleaning out all those damn files at work and breathing dust tho it didn't seems that dusty.  Got a raging ear and sinus headache.  am on antibiotics and Vicodin for the pain and then....at 7:30 pm I notice this growth on Honey's left front foot.  It is red and as large as the main paw pad  and her foot is swollen.  So frantically, off we go to the emergency vet off of Folsom in Rancho.  I can't read the street signs and driving at night is increasingly awful so after missing the street we finally get there at 8pm.  After 2 ex-rays the vet determines that whatever it is it is not attached to any bone, which would indicate possibly cancer and it does not have fluid in it meaning no abscess.  So it is some kind of tumorous growth.  She is on antibiotics and has another vet appt on Monday to see it the size of it has gone down any.  It could be this Plasma cell pododermatitis

So I called in today, we went back to sleep.  I feel a little better, she, the size of the thing has not gone down after 2 doses of medicine yet.  I am besides myself.  I trimmed her nails last weekend and I don't remember seeing anything there.  My poor baby.

My furst Selfie

We haz a big sads

Mommie's Bacation

 Mommie's best friend Peggy retired and moved to the foothills near Yosemite.  Mommie went to bisit last week.  Peggy had 2 guest suites built on her property becuz she has many children and grandchildren.  One guest suite iz behind the garage and the other iz above the garage.  Mommie stayed in the guest suite behind the garage.

 This guest suite haz a brand noo bafroom wif a spa tub and da bedroom has a 55'' flat screen TV.

 Dis is Lino, the consierge cat.  Lino showed up and was named after Lino the contractor that did the werk on the property.  He is walking my mommie over to the guest suite.

Mommie sez Lino takes hiz jobbie berry, berry seriously.

R.I.P. Hansum Mancat

Rocky Furefur

Caterday

sleepin off mi nipped on my meowie wowie pillow

Purrthday Pawtey Aftermath

Purrthday Fun

dis zi me and ma prezzies frum my cusins serafina and trixie marmalade.  I yam nipped owt!!!   woohoo!!!

Today iz ma Purrfday

I iz firteen today.  Fank yoo all fur da purrfday wishes.

100 Degrees

Meltin in mi ham-mick

Caturday

 Orchid that mommie got from the girls next door at work

 Hydrangea from our driveway

Pretty baby girl flower

OMG too funny

Happy Mudder's Day

Dis iz me on da furst day I came to my furevfur home to live wif mommie.  Mommie let me investigate my noo house and den I found da bed and plunked myself up by da soft pillows and sed to myself, "dis iz home" and took a cushy nap.

I lufs my mommie

ooooh...he iz so hansum.....

Dis is Creep.  He lives in our condo complex and iz da sun of a furrend ov ours., He is so hansum...I yam swooning.......

I laid sum eggs....

da pink wuns a gurl....

Whew!!!

Tings r bak to nermal.  Seems mommie took apart my ham-mick and warshed it den put my gizzy quilt rite next to my ham-mick for op-ti-mum sunbathing, except dat it rained today....

OMC!

sumwun vandelized my ham-mick!

Cooling off frum mr. heaty

Werdless Wednesday

MOL!

Happy Nood Yeer!!!

Furry Kissmouse Efurrywun

New catnip glitter mouses

wif fev-vers

Easy Like Sunday

Wat??  It's kinda chilly here in da morning.......

Easy Like Sunday

Ha... Mommie lerned better wayz to git the camera to take pixtures ov me

MOL!!

Norm Lopez, Celebracat in Sacramento

Norm Lopez Pub Crawl

Fans of fat-cat Norm weigh in at pub crawl to raise funds for shelter

Norm Lopez, capitol Fat Cat 

 

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Caturday and we lufs art

Crumpies

I hads the crumpies the ofur nite.  i gets the crumpies when i do not get my belleh rubbed enuf.  i display the crumpies by smakking my tail down on the sofa reel louds like and put the bitey on mommie when she tries to pet me.  mommie trys to get rid of the crumpies, furst she gives me a pile of temtashuns, den she takes my snowflake and dips it in the cosmic catnip fur me and den i bunny kick the crap out of it, put the bitey on it and i eatz da catnip off ov it den i take a nappy and most times the crumpies getted gone.  Den i act like nofing happened.

Road Trip!!!

Happy Tails

 

Happy Tails

Summertime

so after a nasty heetwave last week, temps averaging 107, we are finally back to normal at around 92 degrees.  I lufs da heet,  I like to stretch out and let my bones adsorb all da heetie, feels gud.

I will be 12 years old tomorrow, dats rite, it'z my birfday!!!  Lookin purrty gud fur an old laydee.  Keeping my figure, eatin bon bons, gittin belly rubs, gettin my furs combed by da mommie.  Life does not git any better.

Kea....da Geckko Queen

dats kinda like the lizard king............but not

Easy Like Sunday

Crashed on the new, soft carpet.  As you can see, I have gain the weight back that i lost last year, must have been all those tem-tay-shuns

2 Werds

Meowie Wowie!!!!

Momime brot back frum Ha-why-ee

So mommie and me were haffin a confursashun this morning about Ha-why-ee cuz mommie is goin dere next week and leavin me. She iz goin to poo-a-cow.

I askered her if Ha-na-ka was a Ha-why-an hollyday.

She tolded me that Ha-na-ka was a Chewish hollyday.

I askered mommie if we were Chewish becuz Chewish peoples celebrate Nom Kippers.

Mommie sed no, dat we are Catlick. oh well...