BENIGN!!!!!
I feel so silly. We -- Dad and I -- took the dogs out in the back yard this morning about 10:30 for a few minutes. Never thought to check the answer machine when we came in. So I just now heard the Doctor's message: it is benign!
I left a voice mail for him and will speak with him tomorrow.
It is a polyp and, from what I can gather from the internet, it has to do with the scarring and healing from her bull mastiff attack 2 years back! I will speak to him further about this and post more tomorrow when I have all the details.
OK so here is what happened: Sugar was raised by a puppy miller BUT, she was taken to his home and was his daughter's pet. So she received better care than the average female puppy mill producer. She DID have lots and lots of litters. When she was 9, no longer producing and blind with cataracts, he gave her to SPR. From the stories I heard, he had his young daughter in the car (about 13 or 14?) she was crying she wanted her dog, and he kept saying they could go to the 'farm' and pick out a new puppy. DUH!
Anyhow, Sugar was in that first foster home, with several other bichons. And one day, the woman went to the local shelter and came home with a Bull Mastiff. Now, if you adopt a dog from a foster home, you get loads of info about the dog's temperment. But from the shelters, well, they aren't set up to give you that info. On the 3rd or 4 th day, the Mastiff attacked, pick Sugar up by the head and shook her! She was in a coma for 72 hours, in the vet's quite a while. She left the vet's wearing an e collar and having a drainage tube still in her head (I've seen photos, horrible! I am amazed she survived!) That woman no longer fosters, and all her dogs were immediately moved to other foster homes. Sugar was in her 2d foster home when I adopted her.
On my answer machine, the doc said this is benign; it is a fibroproliferative nasal decolosal polyp. I am guessing at the spelling. On the internet, fibroproliferative polyps are usually primary or secondary to healing from a severe injury. So I am piecing this all together.
Am I giving you all too much info? Sorry!
I was crying with relief for 10 minutes. Then I phoned in and left him a voice mail message. He did say we are NOT done, we need to do some follow up treatment. I will DEFINITELY talk to him about the attack to see if he feels that is related and also it may alter some of what he decides to do so I have to make sure he knows about it. It never came up in the one meeting we had on Monday.
Oh joy I will sleep well tonight!!!!
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I had no idea how much poor Sugar had been through before she came to live with you. The story of the attack broke my heart. Now she has a wonderful home, lots of fursibs (canine and feline) and a good diagnosis. Whatever the future holds with follow-up treatment it is definitely better than her past. Feel better fast Sugar sweetie. 
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