The evening of Dec. 25th we got a rather unpleasant Xmas present, we found a new lump on Rose. In a location that doc told us to monitor for recurrence of the mast cell tumor (lymph nodes in her neck on the right side.). The mass was located between where her jaw bone ends and her ear. It felt fairly small. Due to the holidays, we had to wait until the 28th to take Rose into see Doc.
We visited Doc and scheduled Rose for surgery to biopsy/remove the mass; surgery was the 29th.
What doc found was not small like we thought. What we felt was a small portion of the mass that had poked through the muscles. Removal was not as easy of a surgery as we had hoped because of this. Doc brought the tumor in to show me and it looked like it was well encapsulated and was fairly large for its location.
Rose turned 4 in November. For now, Rose is doing OK. She is on antibiotics and Metacam for pain. She is eating, but her activity levels are down (not unexpected). But her spirits are pretty much normal.
Her incision is a little puffy and it looks like it is going to bruise. It starts at the old incision site and runs back towards her neck. I'm including an image below of the incision that was taken the day after surgery in case anyone is interested. It does still have a lot of dried blood on it in this image. A lot of that has come off already.
For now we are hoping that this isn't the MCT coming back and that the lymph nodes were not involved.
We visited Doc and scheduled Rose for surgery to biopsy/remove the mass; surgery was the 29th.
What doc found was not small like we thought. What we felt was a small portion of the mass that had poked through the muscles. Removal was not as easy of a surgery as we had hoped because of this. Doc brought the tumor in to show me and it looked like it was well encapsulated and was fairly large for its location.
Rose turned 4 in November. For now, Rose is doing OK. She is on antibiotics and Metacam for pain. She is eating, but her activity levels are down (not unexpected). But her spirits are pretty much normal.
Her incision is a little puffy and it looks like it is going to bruise. It starts at the old incision site and runs back towards her neck. I'm including an image below of the incision that was taken the day after surgery in case anyone is interested. It does still have a lot of dried blood on it in this image. A lot of that has come off already.
For now we are hoping that this isn't the MCT coming back and that the lymph nodes were not involved.
