Goliath update

The vet just called, and the thyroid test came back negative, which means cancer. He felt around his collar bone some more and found a lymph node that didn’t feel right. He did a fine needle aspiration into the lymph node, and it tested positive for cancer.

He is going to operate on him today to remove the lymph node, and while he is under anesthesia he is also going to open up his abdomen and have a look at his liver (recall that the front of it looked different than the rest of his liver on the ultrasound our x-rays) and see if there is any other cancers trying to hide.

They will keep him overnight, and then we will pick him up Friday after work if there are no complications. He said that this won’t immediately cure his excessive drinking and peeing problem, so he said he will probably want bring him back on Monday to be boarded again. He said they will probably give him a treatment or two chemo after the surgery.

He said this type of cancer is fairly treatable and said his chances are very good.