That is just so disheartening! I'm so sorry for all you and Thumper are going through. You, and Thumper, must be very resilient!
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That is just so disheartening! I'm so sorry for all you and Thumper are going through. You, and Thumper, must be very resilient!
At first it wasnt easy to deal with and our days were filled with loads of stress. Now that she is doing so well with Reiki and herbal treatments, it's easier to handle. We see results it's not our imagination playing tricks.Quote:
Originally Posted by jenn_librarian
Thumper is one special gal and we know it she knows it :)
Please forgive me I have been following this but have not posted. I am continuing to pray for Thumper. I can see changes in her since her first Reiki treatment. I do believe that she can be helped a little with these treatments.
Please give her a gently kiss and chin rub from me and my gang.
The Reiki treatments are indeed working. It's going to take time but we are in it for the long haul. It will give us great pleasure when the tumor is no longer there and we can take her to the vet's who said there was no hope and prove them wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by catlover4ever
Kisses and chin rubs delivered :)
Blog page update today 1-9-07
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LOL.Quote:
People say it looks like Elvis hairdo
Glad you are doing well, Thumper. :)
How is Miss Thumper doing??? I think about her often, and hope she's ok.
She is doing great. Treatment #11 is tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by jenn_librarian
The area that is white underneath her right ear (left on a photo) has a nice pink tint to it since last Sunday afternoon. This is a very good sign that red blood cells are getting to that area and healing is happening.
I'm so glad that the Reiki treatments are helping. I need to pay more attention to the posts, admittedly, but life has a way of taking over sometimes. I'm a Reiki master and a certified Quantum Touch practitioner and I was giving Puddy QT while I was holding her yesterday before surgery. I know it helped. If anyone is interested, here's a link on Quantum Touch.
www.quantumtouch.com.
Blessings,
Mary
I hope Thumper's treatment went well today. I just wish there was something more to be done for her!
Please know that I have been following this thread from the beginning, but just haven't made a post everytime.
I definitely see a difference in Thumper's right side and I'm glad to hear that the skin is starting to turn a pink color.
You all continue to be in my thoughts and in my prayers.
Please give that brave sweet girl of yours a kiss for me and {{{{{{HUGS}}}}}} for you and your hubby as it must be hard to see your baby girl like this.
Dearest Thumper, please continue to do well with your treatments as I would also love for you to prove the vets wrong.
I too keep up with Thumper's progress, but I don't post that often. I appreciate your descriptions of the progress. I get too upset looking a the photos, even though I know she doesn't hurt.
I saw where this went from calcium to cancer with no explanation. I was thinking about the calcium. I had a cat with an untreated overactive thyroid. This caused calcium to build up in places it shouldn't. Significant calcium built up between the vertebrae in his spine and fused a few together. So I was wondering IF this is calcium, is it worth treating to prevent the calcium from reforming, as fast as the reiki is removing it? In my cat's case, the cause was the overactive thyroid, and giving the thyroid pills to control that stopped the calcium build up. There was nothing to be done about the spine bones. He walked a bit stiff, and he couldn't jump as high as before, but otherwise he was OK. I know you are doing the reiki and herbal remedy. I suppose someone has tested Thumper's thyroid by now and you know it is OK? This was just a thought, to toss out for you to consider. No idea if the thyroid pills would interact with the herbal (that is, if there IS a thyroid issue.)
I continue to keep Thumper in my prayers for good health, and you and your family in my prayers for good decision making, and the determination to see this through, and the finances to keep up! And also to keep abreast of all those techinical terms everyone keeps tossing at you. :)
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Originally Posted by Freedom
Ok, I need to explain things in greater detail. I did have somewhere that it went from calcium to cancer.
#1... NO this is NOT a thyroid problem all her blood work came back normal. Thyroid was never an issue.
#2.... Her offical diagnosis is as follows from the NEEDLE biospy that was done on her head mass.
"chrondrosarcoma": The mass represents a chondrosacrcoma arising from the skull. Chondrosacromas are characterized by aggressive local inflitration, recurrence and moderate rate of metatstasis to the lungs.
#3..... Bioposy results are as finding... chondrosarcoma (well deifferentiated) with necrosis.
#4..... Definition of necrosis: Necrosis (in Greek Νεκρός = Dead) is the name given to accidental death of cells and living tissue.
#4a.....Definition of chrondrosacoma:is a malignant tumor that produces cartilage matrix
#5......How this all started according to the SIMPLE explaination from the last specialist that we went to and who did the needle bioposy...
Her soft spot on her skull never fused together. Thus, calicium/cartliage build up that turned into a tumor.
#6.... The way Reiki works is once it's gone is GONE FOR LIFE.
For more information about reiki... www.reiki.org
Crafty, I just saw this thread and I will keep checking to see how things progress.
Take care and Give Thumper a big ole hug for me!!
Craftlady, I have been following Thumper's thread and it is so good that the Reiki is working for her. I really hope it improves a whole lot, my fingers are crossed for Thumper and her continued progress.
I think it is inspiring what you are doing for her, helping her in any way you can, that is what a true cat owner should be :)
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Originally Posted by CultureJunky
Thank You :)
Just catching back up with Miss Thumper's progress. I'm still sending positive thoughts and lots of prayers yours and Thumper's way. (((HUGS))) to both.
How is Thumper doing???
BUMP!
How is Thumper doing???
Any more updates? How is our Thumper doing now?
Thumper is doing great, the tumor is changing shape and going down.
Sorry I havent had time to update. It's been slightly crazy around here.
We had ice/sleet/freezing rain/snow first part of the week. Tomorrow 1-3 inches of snow is forecasted. Hubby's truck been in/out of the shop, I'm without a vehicle today because he had to take mine to work. Yep, they finally had school today :p he's been out since Tuesday.
2/19/07
I updated her blog page tonight.
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awww....I know it's been worrisome, but her little pink tummy looks kind of cute! Heck, her whole POSE is cute! Oscar is just regrowing fur there after a year on regular Feliway. he started pulling out some fur around the time his UTI showed up.
I can see the PINK patch at the front of the tumour!
"mushy" is good for a "boney" mass. That sucker is fer sure on its way out.
Thanks for the update!
I've updated her blog page
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Is the bald spot you mention new? Did it happen because of the tumour changing shape?
Hopefully as things get "mushier", the bald spot will vanish.
Looking at her in that pose - it looks like a regular cat's head - just extra round! :)
Glad to hear about the hair on her tummy! It does take a while...I am so glad now to rub Oscar's tummy now that all the fur is back.
There is one small (pin head size) that is new on top on her head (cant see in photo). The larger white area seen in the photo has been there since the tumor got bigger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catty1
I know that Reiki and other forms of alternative healing work. I practice it and I've seen it first hand. Keep up the good work and lots of hugs and prayers to you and Thumper.
Blessings,
Mary
Thanks Mary, it sure has been a blessing for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
One thing I'm not looking forward to and our Reiki Master warned me today about it since things are changing for the good (mushy areas), that these areas could develop into puss cysts and need to be drained otherwise if they cant be drained could kill her because of the poision from the puss. These areas would have to drain out.
This would be the last thing to disolving the tumor. Bless her heart if time comes to lance if needed she would do it for me.
Her exact words were "Dont panic when this happens". I'll panic LOL
Oh, my - I hope it progresses without draining...but since Thumper trusts and adores her 2000% (I think that is the figure you used a while back :) ), I would expect that everything would go very well.
So, no mushy jokes...we'll just have to invent a new hairstyle name!
Thumper is still her happy kitty self?
She is still her happy kitty self :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catty1
We call her new style the "Elvis Presley" look. :)
That's one of the first things we learned on becoming Reiki Masters and QT practitioners, that it might get worse, so to speak, before it gets better. Catherine Ponder calls it "chemicalization". Whatever we want to call it, it can be scary. One of my first clients was a man who asked me to do a session on his back spasms. I worked on him for about 45 min. and all seemed well until he got up from the table and he yelled "OMG! It's worse than before!" "Great", I thought, "Make your client worse, why doncha?" So I worked on him some more and the spasms disappeared completely, never to return. It really freaked me out but I never let him see that. But at least w/humans, they can communicate to us what's going on. We're so fearful for our furkids because they can't let us know how they feel other than how they behave. So I feel for ya, believe me, but should Thumper need to have a lancing done, take that as a positive sign. And we'll all be praying her (and you) through it. :)
Blessings,
Mary
Updated her blog site also included photos.
http://www.xanga.com/Craftlady2006
I'm glad that you and your husband can see differences. It looks so uncomfortable. Poor girl. Hope that things will speed up and it will go away.
Y'know...I went back to the blog to check again. I am not sure what angle her head is at in the second photo..I see whiskers but no eyes yet! Poor girl.
I thought nothing really looked different...then I went and looked again because it occurred to me that Thumper no longer had the weird 'pushed-up-Elvis-hairdo' look.
I did see her from a different angle...but am I correct in guessing that she is past the Elvis stage? :D
The second photo I was trying to show the back of her head and how its getting flatter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catty1
The last photo I was trying to show the size of the tumor & how it's going out past her ear and how it's stretch and become white from hair loss.
It was a side/back angle show. I was trying to show how it bows out on the side.
1/2 Elvis stage LOL
It's hard to take photos when she keeps moving on me. :eek:
Also, like I've said before, my camera is not a fancy one, it was only $125. The delay on the shutter is like forever but it's only 3 seconds but allot can happen it that time frame when photo graphicing cats. LOL
As I get better with the new camera, hopefully the photos will also. I do the best I can with what I have to work with these days. More expensive cameras in hundreds of dollars do better.
Someday, I'll have me one of those fancy cameras. In meantime, gotta work with what I got. :)
Oh heavens - the photos are great! I just can't see all angles like you and your husband can, so I ask questions.
I hadn't seen that angle before (last photo), so I had no pics to compare it with.
I think a lot of her first ones were face-front.
However, when I see her in her daddy's arms, her eyes look more relaxed, like nothing is pulling on them/taking them over as much. Am I right on that too?
It's not your camera, my friend - it's my eyes and memory! :D
The little sweetheart. I want so much for her to get all better. Candles burning....
Cathy,
Your right about the eye being more relaxed and opened up.
Hopefully her "third" eye will go away. This past week it's been less irriated which is a good thing.
Hi...I keep checking your site(I have it bookmarked) for an update on Thumper.
I am just hooked on this little one's progress! :)
Maybe she's graduated from Elvis to early Dolly Parton? :p
Hugs to you and hubby and Thumper!
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Originally Posted by Catty1
No graduations from Elvis to early Dolly. :p
I updated her blog this morning and added a video clip. It's way easier to do then taking photos of a moving target LOL