Cheshirekatt
04-21-2003, 02:12 PM
Hi guys. Well, I finally had to bite the bullet and schedule Elvis' surgery for Thursday. He has a growth on his ear that the vet suspects may be squamous cell carcinoma. Because of where's it's located, it's impossible to just take a biopsy and I made the difficult decision to have his ear amputated. :( Elvis is an all white kitty and it's quite common for them to get cancer on the ears from sunburn. With his seizure disorder anesthesia is really tricky for him. That's one of the reasons I've decided to just have them take the whole ear off. If they can get clean margins, then it's totally curable and I don't want him to go under again. I have complete faith in his vet...he's the best. He's going to put a pain patch on him the night before, use special anesthesia with extra techs there to supervise and if he's doing ok, then they're going to clean his teeth. If not, we'll scrap the teeth and worry about that later. He's going to get good pain meds afterwards also, but he will have to spend the night which is fine with me. He'll be able to rest better there where it's more quiet. *sigh* Poor Elvis.
*UPDATE*
The vet just called me and said that everything went well. :D Yay! I was soooo worried. They were able to do his dental work and he had to have a tooth pulled. They gave him some morphine and said he was resting quietly. I decided to leave him there overnight so that he could be nice a quiet. *sigh* Thta's a load off my mind. I'll pick him up tomorrow morning.
*UPDATE*
The vet just called me and said that everything went well. :D Yay! I was soooo worried. They were able to do his dental work and he had to have a tooth pulled. They gave him some morphine and said he was resting quietly. I decided to leave him there overnight so that he could be nice a quiet. *sigh* Thta's a load off my mind. I'll pick him up tomorrow morning.