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Today at PVSEC the surgeon and oncologist saw Waffles. She had chest xrays and an ultrasound to see if it had spread internally. Luckily it has not. The spleen appeared some what abnormal so they did an aspirate of the spleen and there were no mast cells.
They are concerned it is systemic because she has so many and more will pop up. They ran a CKit mutation test to see exactly how aggressive it is, the results will take a couple weeks. We are hoping for negative results, if it's "positive" surgery may not be a good option for her. The surgeon would like to shrink the 2 on her rear because right now clean margins are not possible. They gave her a steroid shot in each and gave me steroids to take home. Depending on mutation test results, oncology does recommend removal even of they don't shrink because those 2 will get larger and cause problems.
Her poor little tail is starting to grow some hairs. They shaved and circled all the tumors. We'll be able to easily see if the large one shrinks. She said she has seen it really work well and also not do anything. Fingers crossed!!!! We have a follow up in 2 weeks to check the size.
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