On the morning of January 11th we got a call from the vet hospital where Quigley was treated. I didn’t know they had sent in the sample of the needle biopsy to the lab anyway, after we already had to make the difficult decision to let him go. At least I have some answers now.<\/p>\n
Quigley being Quigley, of course nothing was typical. No tumor in his spleen or heart (in fact, all vets involved commented on how good everything looked on the xrays and ultrasound – except the lungs), no abdominal swelling, no obvious sign of bleeding disorder, no pale mucous membranes, no depression or lethargy, no loss of appetite. Just a small mass near his pancreas that metastasized to the lungs.<\/p>\n
With all that I know now, hemangiosarcoma being aggressive cancer with a prognosis of only weeks or at best months to live even with treatment, I’m more at peace because knowing while it was progressing wouldn’t really have made a difference in my or Quigley’s life. He would have worried because I would have worried, and all the negative energy would have been bad for both of us. Instead, the two of us enjoyed the time we had left in December, trialing and hanging out in Durango.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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