Grapefruit size tumor on small intestine1/17/2024 ![]() Ling Ling has an amazing constitution (meaning she is one tough old dog), and she has a very dedicated owner (also one tough old dog). My granny lived with a hernia for 23 years. They told her she was too old to have it repaired. She developed a hernia when she was 70 years old. This reminds me a little of my wonderful Granny. But… but… she was so old, and… it didn’t seem to be bothering her. In retrospect, it seems that we should have done surgery last July. Well, the tumor did get a lot bigger, and Ling Ling did not get any younger. There is a rather nasty-looking bulge that looks like it will soon die and rot and burst open. It has grown so much that it appears to have disrupted its own blood supply. Unfortunately, the tumor is not only making Ling Ling feel bad, it’s making the tumor feel bad. It’s up to 10 inches long, 5 inches wide and 6 inches thick now. Her tumor, on the other hand, has been doing great. She has lost weight and gets around slowly. We decided it was something she would probably die with, instead of something that she would die from.įast forward to May of this year. Ling Ling was so elderly and the tumor was large enough to require a fairly lengthy surgery, and it didn’t seem to be bothering her. Unless they get big enough to be uncomfortable, that is. Really, they are usually more of a cosmetic problem than a medical problem. They aren’t usually invasive, nor do they spread to other organs. ![]() We did a fine-needle-aspiration to get some cells for examination and it turned out to be a lipoma. It was about 6 inches long, 3 inches wide and 1&1/2 inches thick, which is pretty big, even for a 57 pound dog. She had developed a large tumor in front of her left shoulder. Last summer, she came in for her checkup in July at the tender age of 15 years. Who doesn’t have old socks lying around? I use this technique all the time now. Her picture here was taken a few years ago to illustrate her owner’s great idea for bandaging the elbow. ![]() ![]() She’s some kind of a Collie mix, or something. ![]()
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