Monday, September 25, 2006
Great news!
The vet (Dr. Elizabeth Kline Burress) called today ... said the knot on Mac's chin is benign! ... some sort of calcified growth. Dad talked to her and relayed it to me, but she said the vets at UT Vet School were very interested in it ... they'd never seen anything like it before. It's getting bigger, and Mac goes around with her tongue sticking out more (or more often) than it used to, and she drools some. She said both those things are to be expected, and it may cause her some problems eating, but shouldn't shorten her lifespan. (I thought the drool might be caused from nerve damage to her itty bitty chin during the biopsy.)
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Poor Mac. Glad it's benign, but poor Mac...
Are they interested enough to want to study her?
I don't think the offer was made. I wonder if they can do anything to slow it, or if it may spontaneously stop growing. They may not know. Dr. Burress was about 99.5% sure it was cancerous, said when she used a scalpel to take a sample for biopsy it was a "bony mass". If must be pretty rare if the people at the vet school hadn't seen anything like it before, but they said there was no sign of malignancy. She seems to feel good.
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