Good news on Toby

Toby had a splenectomy last Tuesday. As you may remember, he was
deathly ill on the weekend of Nov 10th, but recovered. But they found
a mass on his spleen. The surgery went well, but statistics said that
there was an 80% probability of it being malignant and a 55%
probability of it being a hemangiosarcoma, which is normally fatal
within 6 weeks of diagnosis without chemo and 6 months with.

He beat the odds, it's benign. He still has the autoimmune hemolytic
anemia to deal with, and will probably be on prednisone for the rest
of his life (and we will always have a broad spectrum antibiotic in
the house), but he's well, eating normally (which is to say,
ravenously) and drinking and peeing like a horse.

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dillon

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"Dillon Pyron" <dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Toby had a splenectomy last Tuesday. As you may remember, he was
> deathly ill on the weekend of Nov 10th, but recovered. But they found
> a mass on his spleen. The surgery went well, but statistics said that
> there was an 80% probability of it being malignant and a 55%
> probability of it being a hemangiosarcoma, which is normally fatal
> within 6 weeks of diagnosis without chemo and 6 months with.
>
> He beat the odds, it's benign. He still has the autoimmune hemolytic
> anemia to deal with, and will probably be on prednisone for the rest
> of his life (and we will always have a broad spectrum antibiotic in
> the house), but he's well, eating normally (which is to say,
> ravenously) and drinking and peeing like a horse.

Glad to hear it!

Dennis

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:33:28 -0600, Dillon Pyron
<dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> wrote in rec.scuba:

>Toby had a splenectomy last Tuesday. As you may remember, he was
>deathly ill on the weekend of Nov 10th, but recovered. But they found
>a mass on his spleen. The surgery went well, but statistics said that
>there was an 80% probability of it being malignant and a 55%
>probability of it being a hemangiosarcoma, which is normally fatal
>within 6 weeks of diagnosis without chemo and 6 months with.
>
>He beat the odds, it's benign. He still has the autoimmune hemolytic
>anemia to deal with, and will probably be on prednisone for the rest
>of his life (and we will always have a broad spectrum antibiotic in
>the house), but he's well, eating normally (which is to say,
>ravenously) and drinking and peeing like a horse.

Excellent news!