Ok, here is the story.
about 2 weeks ago; i was petting my boxer, Lucy, who is 2 years old.
By her chest i found this rather large lump; after freaking out and crying for an hour; i called the vet and took her that morning.
The vet was a bit concerned b/c she is a boxer and they are prone to cancer; so he took an aspirate (took cells to look at) and realized her red blood cells seemed abnormal. SO they sent her cells away to the lab...after being on pins and needles and crying...about a week later; we got the lab results....the results were VAGUE. The Vet interpreted the results as some form of benign tumor....and a kind that wouldn't likely spread. He still wanted to take the lump out. So we scheduled for her to have surgery last MOnday. Well...over the weekend; her lump went from golf ball size to a pea...and i took her on Monday anyways and the vet didn't want to operate. so now we are just supposed to "watch" the size of the lump and call if anything changes....but i'm still so concerned; we still have no answers...were the lab results wrong?? is it NOT cancer???
Has anyone had any experience with anything like this with their boxer??
Does anyone have any thoughts, comments, advice??? I'm going crazy over here...
I think we are going to get a 2nd opinion but just wondering if anyone has gone through this that may be able to add some insight???
Thanks so much..
Lucy's mom, Megan :
about 2 weeks ago; i was petting my boxer, Lucy, who is 2 years old.
By her chest i found this rather large lump; after freaking out and crying for an hour; i called the vet and took her that morning.
The vet was a bit concerned b/c she is a boxer and they are prone to cancer; so he took an aspirate (took cells to look at) and realized her red blood cells seemed abnormal. SO they sent her cells away to the lab...after being on pins and needles and crying...about a week later; we got the lab results....the results were VAGUE. The Vet interpreted the results as some form of benign tumor....and a kind that wouldn't likely spread. He still wanted to take the lump out. So we scheduled for her to have surgery last MOnday. Well...over the weekend; her lump went from golf ball size to a pea...and i took her on Monday anyways and the vet didn't want to operate. so now we are just supposed to "watch" the size of the lump and call if anything changes....but i'm still so concerned; we still have no answers...were the lab results wrong?? is it NOT cancer???
Has anyone had any experience with anything like this with their boxer??
Does anyone have any thoughts, comments, advice??? I'm going crazy over here...
I think we are going to get a 2nd opinion but just wondering if anyone has gone through this that may be able to add some insight???
Thanks so much..
Lucy's mom, Megan :