What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?

So, just got off the phone with the head vet at our practise. He's had the path results rechecked and they suggest a benign growth based in the blood vessels, but one that MAY be growing quickly enough to become a problem or that may be being irritated by another factor into becoming a worse problem.

Current working theory on the bone changes in Spike's x-rays are that he has a bone cyst. This could be the thing that's interacting with the tumour to make it a possible problem. Vet says this is also treatable, but he wants to do more x-rays and possibly another, deeper biopsy because clearly our best chance of finding a treatment that will make this shit go away depends on us finding out what the fuck's actually going on in there.

Vet: *enthusiastically* I've never actually repaired a bone cyst before.
Me: *resigned* Want to?

So he's going back in Friday morning for another general anaesthetic and more exploratory rooting around and radiation. Referral to a (non-charity-subsidised) specialist remains a possibility, but first we have to work out what the fuck kind of specialist we're going to need.

*sigh*

What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?

So, just got off the phone with the head vet at our practise. He's had the path results rechecked and they suggest a benign growth based in the blood vessels, but one that MAY be growing quickly enough to become a problem or that may be being irritated by another factor into becoming a worse problem.

Current working theory on the bone changes in Spike's x-rays are that he has a bone cyst. This could be the thing that's interacting with the tumour to make it a possible problem. Vet says this is also treatable, but he wants to do more x-rays and possibly another, deeper biopsy because clearly our best chance of finding a treatment that will make this shit go away depends on us finding out what the fuck's actually going on in there.

Vet: *enthusiastically* I've never actually repaired a bone cyst before.
Me: *resigned* Want to?

So he's going back in Friday morning for another general anaesthetic and more exploratory rooting around and radiation. Referral to a (non-charity-subsidised) specialist remains a possibility, but first we have to work out what the fuck kind of specialist we're going to need.

*sigh*

Everything he lacks, well, he makes up in denial

In non-Spike-weird-health-related news, there is a pool of vomit on the floor in the hallway in front of drunk!Barry's flat. Shiny Headed Michael says that Barry's worst fear is being moved to an old people's home where he will have to stop chugging down his weight in cheap beer and cheaper cider every day lose his independence.

I'm all for independence in principle, but srsly, IMNSHO, your right to independent living stops where my right to a home free of your bodily fluids starts. Shinyhead had better have that cleaned up before I have to walk down the hallway again.

Everything he lacks, well, he makes up in denial

In non-Spike-weird-health-related news, there is a pool of vomit on the floor in the hallway in front of drunk!Barry's flat. Shiny Headed Michael says that Barry's worst fear is being moved to an old people's home where he will have to stop chugging down his weight in cheap beer and cheaper cider every day lose his independence.

I'm all for independence in principle, but srsly, IMNSHO, your right to independent living stops where my right to a home free of your bodily fluids starts. Shinyhead had better have that cleaned up before I have to walk down the hallway again.