Puppy news
I decided to go for a ride yesterday (first one since the August heat meltdown) and while I was out, I got a call from the veterinary oncologist I have an appointment with next month. Color me surprised! She said someone sent her a link to this blog with the questions I had about the lab reports.
How she found this, I don’t know, and it doesn’t matter anyway. But to do something like that shows a bit of class that I haven’t seen or heard of since, like, forever. She’ll get a mention in my will for that!
She left a long message (and was cut off and called back, apparently Verizon’s voice message is only about minute long or something) saying that Hemangiopericytoma is a specific kind of spindle cell tumor. Spindle cell tumors are the general classification of these sorts of things, and hema&c is the specific one. So that answers that. There doesn’t look to be two problems, which is one thing I was worried about. (I realized that a definite diagnosis can’t be made until a real biopsy is done.)
I’m just really impressed that someone would do that. Certainly she’s a busy person, as it taking two weeks for an appointment, but to take the time to call to answer questions is really something pretty extraordinary. My own doctor has never done that!
So mad props to Dr. Turek for that!
