Tabitha

[anef]

Well, she' s been in and out to the vet this week.  On Monday Michael took her in because her face had all swollen up, and the vet gave her some more antibiotics.  She took some more blood tests and said when they came back we'd be able to decide on whether Tabitha would be able to cope with an operation to take the teeth out. 

On Wednesday Tabitha turned out to have a red, weeping patch on her face and I got some cream for it.  On Thursday the vet rang to say that her blood tests were back and the thyroid seems to have stabilised.  She was very keen to get her in to take out the bad teeth, so I took her in again today.  The vet said that there was a possibility that the problem with the teeth was not an infection but mouth cancer, so she would take an x-ray as well.

Just now the vet rang to say that Tabitha was still under anaesthetic, but there was a lot of deterioration in the bone of her mouth, under the teeth, and she is 90% sure it is a tumour.  She is going to do a biopsy and send it off for analysis which will take a week.  She says mouth tumours in cats are usually very aggressive and if it is one Tabitha may not have more than a few weeks.

Please don't ring me because I'll only cry down the phone.

Comments

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

I'm really sad to hear this. Hugs to Tabitha from me and Roger.

[coth.livejournal.com]

Very sorry to hear this. Hugs and best wishes to you all.

[dorispossum.livejournal.com]

This is very sad. Take care.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear this. Let me know if there is anything at all I can do to help.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

including but not limited to delivery of WINE later (unless you'd rather not)

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Poor thing :-(

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I am so sorry.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Oh, Anne. I am so, so sorry. What a wretched thing to be going through.

[anef.livejournal.com]

Just to say that she seems very chirpy today. Have fed her food laced with various drugs, and she is sitting by the keyboard head-butting me and shedding everwhere. Her facial swelling has gone down and the raw patch seems to be healing up nicely. Also she has been shovelling food down in a most ungenteel sort of way.

So I'm going to take each day as it comes.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yay. How very ... catlike. I hope that continues; and yes, one day at a time. I had a cat for four extra years, one day at a time...