In April, my very healthy senior cat Faith suddenly became deathly ill, was hospitalized and then was subsequently diagnosed with small cell lymphoma.
After lots of consultations and for plenty of reasons, we opted for palliative care only. This means, instead of treating Faith with chemotherapy, we opted to continue steroids only, understanding we might only get a couple months benefit from them.
Well, Faith is nearly eight months on the steroids and has done really well, only needing anti-nausea medicine once a week. She's even regained all of her lost weight and then some.
This past week she has vomited three times instead of once, so the fact her cancer might be heading in the other direction is on our radar.
She's still eating and running around like a kitten, so she's not in any danger yet as we can see.
But we are keeping an eye on her weight and, if the more frequent vomiting continues, will get her tummy scanned.
In the meantime, here are half a dozen recent photos of my very photogenic cat, who poses for the camera when she sees it pointed in her direction (sometimes even if she's sleeping).
Also, if you're wondering what's up with Woodstock, that's Faith's "support animal." It was a gift inside my stocking a few years back that Faith instantly claimed. She drops him all over the house (when he's not with her).
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