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Originally Posted by maggiefromnj  Hopefully it is just a fatty lipoma and then the bright side will be that it caused her to get her dental before she ended up with more trouble there.....
Could you tell if it was hurting Jada when you touched it or anything? Does the vet have enough knowledge to know if it was fatty tissue or not? I would ask him that..that is does he think it was fatty tissue and how many of these has he seen, that is can he make that kind of call on it?
I have a fatty lipoma on my collarbone. So, hopefully that is all it is and she has grown so has it. My experience is that it has grown over the years, but they few times I have asked the dr they insist that is all it is. I made them do an ultrasound on it and they stick with that diagnosis. I have no idea why they don't want to take it off, but it's been many years and if it WAS cancer, I'd be dead by now. It has grown as I have grown fatter. It is between the size of a large grape and a small egg..(the top half only, who knows how deep it is, only the top half sticks out and it doesn't hurt. I should have had it out years ago, but they told me it would leave a scar. I didn't care enough to follow it up and see if that was true. Now it has grown so I'm sure it would be a scar. Luckily it pretty much falls right where a tank top covers it.
I hope that is all Jada has, or a simple infection, maybe she had a tick or something that never got all the way out and it got infected. How old is she and did the vet look at her teeth at her last check up? I ask because I'm curious how much we can really tell by looking and sniffing, and at what age to get a dental even if all looks and smells well. |
Our vet said it looked very odd to him and he didn't speculate as to whether it was a fatty tissue. He said it was very distinct and white in color. He has done these surgeries before and said not to jump to the conclusion that it was cancer, that it could have been deep tissue trauma (when she fell off the arm of the loveseat a few weeks ago) that had abscessed and became hard.
As for her teeth..she had a dental in October of 2009 and was checked last May when she had her annual and was ok. He did say that her mouth is so tiny that it is hard to get the brush back in her mouth far enough when I brush her teeth. I talked to Lisa (sugarmamma) and Sugar has a tiny mouth too and she uses a sonicare on her. I am ordering one to start using as soon as her little mouth heals.