{"id":33383,"date":"2025-10-30T08:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33383"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:25:36","slug":"uneasily-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33383","title":{"rendered":"Uneasily Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago<\/a>, our vet found a mass in Pete's abdomen.<\/p>\n

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So, he went to the 'specialty vet' (which is the same vet Tricksey went to for her cancer treatments, so I already have doubts...). They did an ultrasound and a biopsy. The biopsy was \"inconclusive\" for cancer. So... But... the diagnosis was \"gastrointestinal eosinophilic sclerosing fibroplasia\", which is a form of intestinal inflammation that cats are prone to. It's non-cancerous but can be dangerous because it can block their intestines or rupture or ... etc..<\/p>\n

\"Surgery!\" The vet said. $10,000 worth of surgery! Intestinal surgery that could kill him or leave him with a lifetime of digestive problems including the need for constant vitamin injections and constant diarrhea! <\/p>\n

Pass.<\/p>\n

Instead, we opted for oral steroids. They make him constantly hungry. All of this coincides with the loss of Pepper<\/a>. That loss meant losing access to Pepper's leftover food, for Pete. She had almost stopped eating in her last months, leaving a ton of extra (high-fat, low protein) food for him to eat when we weren't looking. And he lost a lot of weight (which he needed to lose) in the months after. This has the vets somewhat concerned. We've increased his food.<\/p>\n

Last week he went back to the vet for a followup ultrasound. And, they found no sign of the mass. It was gone? He goes back to the regular vet in a few weeks to check again.<\/p>\n

I'm afraid of optimism because no story that starts with \"found a mass\" has ever ended well, in my experience<\/a>. But, I guess I'll take what I can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, our vet found a mass in Pete's abdomen. So, he went to the 'specialty vet' (which is the same vet Tricksey went to for her cancer treatments, so I already have doubts...). They did an ultrasound and a biopsy. The biopsy was \"inconclusive\" for cancer. So... But... the diagnosis was \"gastrointestinal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33383"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33391,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383\/revisions\/33391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}