To keep my mind a bit occupied with cancer yet also away from dad’s cancer, I was wondering what to do when my cat would have cancer? Since we don’t go for colonoscopy on our cat, would we ever know he would ever have cancer in the first place?
Googling things up I was very surprised to hear about Celebrex again (see Colon Cancer Signs)
One particular class of drugs, the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), is very effective in controlling post-surgical pain as well as pain and inflammation due to arthritis. Eh, our GP gave dad Celebrex long before there was even talk about surgery!
Just make sure that if one day your cat is in pain, go to your vet in stead of self medicating. Cats are very susceptible to exhibiting adverse effects from drugs like aspirin and acetaminophen, to the point that cats could die from it!
kath-e here with another update…woowow…well its just a couple of days over my 2month mark of my prognosis of 3-6-months…
nonhodgkins lymphoma stage 4b diagnosed in 2004 ..did 2 years of chemo every three weeks..what a nightmare or so i thought…
it took me three years to recover from the chemo bec of the side effects..chemo brain…fatigue..its a blood cancer so it just affects the whole body…
ive been begging my oncologist for two years now for more chemo of rituxan he told me i was a trying patient and i alredy had enough chemo for mr and 10 other people to last a lifetime…
i remember telling him how symptomatic i was with the chronic nite sweats..fatigue..no appetite…vomiting…and on and on…he still said no….
then this past november he found something on my liver and decided to watch and wait…oh boy not again i thought…so from nov to jan this unknown liver mass had grown…from jan to mar…it had grown more….from mar to may…scanned again and yes…it had grown more…well all tht waiting and watching did for me was to allow that dr to take my life…right before my eyes…
mar 31 he finally did a biopsy of my liver and it was malignant lymphoma stage 4b…can you imagine…i still cant…on april 19th …19 days after the biopsy he gave me the result finally and that was to offer me rituxan which i had been asking for …for 2 yrs…and he just laughed at me again…well on april 2nd when he read the biopsy report and saw the scans and mri he was unable to face me bec he denied my request for more chemo of rituxan…so as a result of his delayed diagnosis and as a result of his negligence to ignore my symptoms and not treat me is why im now a metatastic liver patient whos life is about to end….sigh…i feel like im in a dream and i cant wake up…well now that its been since 4/19 that i got my horrifying prognosis..my two month mark is coming up real quick…
i was put on liquid morphine on fri…on mon hospice increased it doubly every 4 hours…the pain is quite intense now…and appears to be holding steady…
the appetite is almost gone altogether..bec when i do eat a very little…it hurts so much in my belly…its not worth the pain…and now since monday…ive developed ascites…my body is filling up with fluid all around the liver including my legs…feet…arms and the abdominal area…and the itching all over is chronic now to…and its the kind of itch that wont go away…im all scarred up from scratching so hard…my feet legs back ankles arms…
and to think…this is only the beginning of the end…tomorrow the funeral director will be here to make the funeral arrangements with me…sigh…and ive decided to spare everyone hurt feelings and therefore im being cremated with a direct burial and no service at all whatsoever..not even an obituary…my family will be notified of my cemetary location after im buried..oh and did i tell you there will be no viewing of my body once im dead…
i feel that anyone who wants a viewing is just not going to get it…imagine it…cause i sure cant…however…i dont want them to look at me this way only dead bec that is the way they are going to remember me…that look on my face…a look they will live with forever….well im not the one…
i just cant allow it to be that way…and i feel if my family needs to grieve well they can all get together and have a picnic and share stories and all the memories they want…
my son…my only child isnt handling this well at all…my two grandchildren arent doing so well either…and my great granddaughter is so sweet…i dont want any of them to remember me in that sick lookin way that i am now and have been…however as it spread to my liver…so did the years spread to me…my family cant stand to even look at me as i have deteriorated so much…
yupperssssssss…..5-6 and today i weighed in at 92 pounds!! i cant blame any of them…but you know ive got 9 siblings and there basically all pretty healthy…
so if by my carrying this ugly metatastic liver cancer spares them from any unncessary suffering and disease…it will all have been worth it!!
please understand i love you all…i just want to spare you all the burden of making arrnangements going to funeral parlor ..pls allow me my last chance to spare all of you those tears…
we have had our ups our downs and our all arounds..but one thing we always had and never lost was each other…that will never change!!!
until we meet again…ill be watching over you and praying for you all to be happy healthy and sane!
ily