[pyrnet] no end to this?

["Ann K. Wetherilt" <wetheri@emmanuel.edu>]

Is it just a matter of time before any one of these great white wonders of
ours succumbs? We took our Ivy Rose in last week after she'd stopped
eating for several days (not an uncommon occurrence) but then began to
throw up what she did eat, hours after the fact. She had a tumor in her
abdomen that was removed surgically on Friday and the path reports
indicate malignancy. The tumor was attached to the body wall and the
diaphram, so the surgeon could not get all the margins. We're waiting for
a consultation with the oncologist today to find out a little more about
just what kind of cancer we're dealing with and what, if anything, we can
do about it. It's a soft-tissue cancer--that's about all we know now.
We're ruling out further surgery--she's 10 years old and came through the
first round fine, but we'll not put her through it again.
This gal was so playful and lively--and already shows signs of resuming
this--that we were in denial, I guess, about her age and the possibility
(probability?) of cancer. Will update when we know more, especially to see
if others have dealt with this particular kind of tumor. It's three in a
row for us with cancers, all different--when does it get to be our turn to
have one die of old age?!!
Ann, Peg, Ivy Rose and Tori