TANKERSMOM
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Tank is my 6 year old Bully, was all Bully until a few months back when he developed a rash underneath his leather collar, vet, treated, fixed, and then and now, he's just gotten sicker with a terrible ear infections, again, vet, treat, treat, treat, with that, he's now got this horrible skin issue, first started on his ears, outside portion, losing hair, what first looked like "hot spots", kept it clean, dry, they both stay scaley and now there's spots here and there, losing his hair in spots, the cushion on his paws have just fallen off, his paws look like they are "foundering", he lays around all the time, does still get excited with what we are feeding him "wet" food to fatten him back up, he's lost over 20 pounds. Biopsy of a place on ear came back with a few mast cells, I'm an oncology nurse so this immediately caught my attention, labs show his liver enzymes are up, the vet is clueless, we've taken him back and back and back again, dozens of trips to her for pain meds, steroids, antibiotics, nothing is working, she is completely without answers...I have pics of the paws and now it's spreading to his legs, scaley and hair loss, could it be thyroid???? could it be cancer??? Vet is leaning toward a cancer, but a lymphoma maybe? She says that there's not any lab that would answer this, is there not a cancer antigen that can be tested for?? I'm at a loss and I feel like my baby is suffering..help, please somebody tell me, does this sound familiar in any way to any body???? If so I'd be glad to send pics, or if allowed post them on here...I'm almost at that point to end what I feel like may be a suffering scenario..I don't want to go there...Thanks to anyone who can give me direction!!
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