My Cody needs your prayers. We went to Dr. Paul's today to have her chest cyst checked. If you remember, it was drained once but refilled after about a month. He was hesitant to aspirate it again as he fears constant draining will only aggrevate it and perhaps, cause infection. As long as it didn't grow much larger and wasn't bothering her, he wanted to take a wait and see approach and to come in if it got much larger. Then he would consider removing it surgically. (It's an encapsulated sac that keeps refilling)
We went today. He decided that as it looked so red and turgid and "angry," it would be best to remove it now. If she hadn't eaten this morning, he would have done it right then. Anyway, he wanted to do some pre op testing: Blood work, chest xray, abdominal xray (which struck me as odd, becasue that's not normally a part of the pre op protocol. He was to tell me later, that he "felt" something when he's was giving her the exam) Anyway, I was to leave her there and pick her up at 12pm, to return on Monday for the surgery. I went with Star to pick her up and I knew something was wrong the minute I walked into his room. They found a large abdominal mass on the xray, unrelated to the other chest cyst. Both he and Dr. Venezia believe there's a good chance it's benign but they want to go ahead with surgery immediately. They'll do an ultrasound first. It it looks operable, they'll go ahead. If not, he'll call me immediately to discuss other options.
He just called. They have her under and were in the process of doing the ultrasound. Bless his heart, he called me from the OR! He said it looks like a large cyst, fluid or blood filled, they can't tell. He did say that neither he nor Dr. V had ever seen one quite like this before. They don't know if they'll be able to remove it or not as it is very close to her kidney. He asked if I wanted them to proceed or if I wanted to take her for a second opinion at Tufts or Angell Memorial in Boston. I trust him so totally, that I said no, go ahead. He assured me that once they got in there, if he felt that it was too risky for them to remove it, he would close her up and we would take her up to Boston. The greatest risk is bleeding. Please pray for her. Her surgery should be over sometime around 4-5pm. I hope they can remove it safely. Poor Star is wandering around outside looking for her sister, moping. Keep your paws crossed for her please
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