[ Post a Response | Dog Chat Message Board - Get advice on dogs here ]
Posted by Lexy on July 16, 2009, 8:24 am, in reply to "Not a vet"
212.225.105.253
Hi Pat,
Glad to hear your little one is OK, that has got to be such a relief.
I would like your advice/opinion regarding by 5 year old boy. He's having his stitches out Saturday (18th) and I'm assuming the vet nurse will do it.
Last Saturday (3 days after the op) we had to take him just to get his wound checked on and the nurse read the report that someone had entered onto his file on the computer. When the VET phoned me the day before (Friday) she said the report was back and no more treatment was required and said what the lump was.
I tried to establish from what she had said if it was only probably good margins and she said oh no they were DEFINITELY good margins. The report the nurse read out said it had got jagged edges. Also, that it could grow back at the site of the scar within 12-15 months and it would need keeping an eye on. But it did say that no further treatment was required.
I am now not sure whether he is clear of cancer or not, could some cells still remain? They don't seem to take too kindly to being much interrogated and become somewhat evasive if I try to labour a point. I just have my dog's welfare at heart. I would like to know the right questions to ask.
