Angel Poppy - was My Poppy has cancer

[cats4ever]

Pat, I am so very sorry about Poppy!
I hope that you can keep her comfortable for as long as possible. She is in the best hands she could possibly be.
Best wishes and lots of hugs to you, Poppy and Sparkler.

[phesina]

Thank you, Heidi. from Poppy and Sparkler and Pat

[mbsmum]

I am very sorry to hear about Poppy Pat. Lots of hugs to both of you.

[phesina]

Thank you, Prathima.

from Poppy and Sparkler and Pat.

[cats4ever]

Just a thought: Is chemo therapy an option?

[phesina]

She wasn't acting as if she was feeling poorly until Tuesday last week, when she didn't eat all her dinner, even after I'd arranged it the way she liked several times. (There's a whole story there.) Then last Wednesday evening she left about half of it. Thursday I called the regular vet, just to have her checked out. I had no idea something serious might be going on.

They didn't have any open appointments until this Tuesday (yesterday) but advised me not to wait, to take her to the emergency vets and have this checked out now. So off we went to the emergency vets, and.. after a couple of x-rays and blood work.. and then an ultrasound.. that's when the news came out.

We came home with a steroid suspension for me to give her some every day.. and an appetite stimulant pill.. and a can of A/D which supposedly is meant for cats to like. Well, she didn't like that, didn't like anything I offered her that evening. She's been eating better since then, so I think (hope) she was just unwinding from all the stuff that day, the blood work and x-rays and ultrasound AND an enema and then some sub-Q fluids, and then that evening a squirt of the steroid.

The next day (last Friday), I went shopping at Petco and Kroger, buying all kinds of kitty junk food, Fancy Feast and Friskies and Meow Mix and store brands and such, that I hoped she might find yummy-licious. No need for the organic, grain-free, gluten-free, yada-yada, stuff at this point... She gobbled up her Friskies Chicken & Tuna Pate Dinner that evening, and she's been eating fine since. Tonight she got some tasty Trader Joe's Ocean Fish, Salmon & Rice Dinner, which she ate right up.

I gave her an appetite stimulant pill the first night but haven't needed to since then. She's getting her steroid suspension squirts each evening.

She moves around just fine when she feels like moving around, and she jumps up on my bed with no trouble. And she loves it, as she has been, when I lean down and rest my head along her side and pet her and breathe some warm air into her fur... she purrrs away!

So we're hanging in there!..

[phesina]

Just a thought: Is chemo therapy an option?

Thanks, Heidi. Both vets (emergency and regular) and I talked about that. It's not an option for her, I guess with this kind of cancer. She'd need to come to the hospital every week and stay for several hours while she's hooked up and stuff is shot into her. It might give her a little more time but not much, and a lot of the time she would be miserable. So we're going with the steroids and keeping her as comfortable and happy as can be.

[Randi]

I'm glad she gobbled up her Friskies Chicken & Tuna Pate Dinner and the Trader Joe's Ocean Fish, Salmon & Rice Dinner, too. Also good that she moves around and wants to jump on your bed.

I hope she will have some more quality with you and Sparkler. Please give her lots of kisses for me.

Sending big ((((hugs)))) to you.