Many of your will be aware of Pickford from CatChat Towers. Well he has a lump and is asking if anyone has any ideas on what it might be:
http://www.catchat.org/discus/messages/18/69930.html?1200690868 (there is a picture here).
This business with the lump on my leg is getting all too confusing now, and the vets don't seem to know the answer, so I thought I'd throw it open to the forum - any clues appreciated!
In the beginning – I got this goo-filled lump on the top of my front leg – well they drained out all the stuff (gooey clear stuff, no poison, just clear gooey stuff), and they sent some of it off to somewhere to see if it was anything nasty, but thankfully it wasn't. The ‘best guess’ then was that it was fluid from my joints, maybe like if I had a damaged one or something. Then - I started limping - sometimes quite a lot and sometimes not so bad, but my folks thought it was to do with the lump - which had come back again.
So, last Monday I went in and had an x-ray and they drained all the gooey stuff out of the lump again too – well, they hoped that the x-ray might show where the liquid was coming from, but it didn’t – it just showed I had arthritis!
So they reckoned that my limp was because of the arthritis, not the lump. But they still didn't know why I got the lump back.
So anyway, the lump is already back again (yep, third time), all liquid-y like before, and this morning whn I was getting fussed, one of the folks noticed a smaller lump on my belly (I hadn't even noticed that one!), it wasn't there before though, I know that.
So anyway, they're taking me back to the vet Monday, 'cos I've got to have the couple of stitches out that I had last Monday, so if anyone has any clues about my lumps before then, please bung it on here! I don't want to be down the vets every week having me lump drained now do I? And if the goo is coming from my joint, won't that make my arthritis worse? And what about the smaller lump on my belly?
Sorry to go on.
Anyone got any clues?
Love and force-ten headbutts
from Pickford (the Brave)
xxxxxx