Wuhgees
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Hi friends!
My beautiful boy Hummer, just turned 10 years on recently on Dec. 29th. The day after his birthday, we noticed some blood on his bed and inspected him all over - we found a purplish mass inside his right cheek. On New Year's day, we took him to the vet, (thank goodness they were open), and they were able to remove his small mass the next day.
Yesterday, we finally got his biopsy results... and we're devastated. Results say that Hummer has a very invasive malignant oral melanoma. They say most dogs with this type of cancer have about 5 months left... I've been crying all day yesterday from distraught and confusion because Hummer has been doing SO well that how could such a good boy have cancer?? We have our first appointment with an oncologist on Tuesday and hopefully he can give us more information...
My husband and I talked about it last night, that if the oncologist presents us a plan that will be very tough for our boy, that we would opt out and just make sure our boy is happy and comfortable. But, we will cross that bridge once we get there...
I guess from this awesome community, I wanted to ask and see if anyone else has dealt with something similar? How were the treatments? Any experience with chemo? How much longer was your bully able to stay with you?
Thank you all so much for taking the time to read about Hummer.
My beautiful boy Hummer, just turned 10 years on recently on Dec. 29th. The day after his birthday, we noticed some blood on his bed and inspected him all over - we found a purplish mass inside his right cheek. On New Year's day, we took him to the vet, (thank goodness they were open), and they were able to remove his small mass the next day.
Yesterday, we finally got his biopsy results... and we're devastated. Results say that Hummer has a very invasive malignant oral melanoma. They say most dogs with this type of cancer have about 5 months left... I've been crying all day yesterday from distraught and confusion because Hummer has been doing SO well that how could such a good boy have cancer?? We have our first appointment with an oncologist on Tuesday and hopefully he can give us more information...
My husband and I talked about it last night, that if the oncologist presents us a plan that will be very tough for our boy, that we would opt out and just make sure our boy is happy and comfortable. But, we will cross that bridge once we get there...
I guess from this awesome community, I wanted to ask and see if anyone else has dealt with something similar? How were the treatments? Any experience with chemo? How much longer was your bully able to stay with you?
Thank you all so much for taking the time to read about Hummer.