Survivors and Celebrations

Tallulah's Story

My beautiful Tallulah I adopted her 10 years ago, she is a love bug and my sweet baby girl...July of 2009 I felt 3 little lumps by her right armpit...I knew immediately that it wasn't good. I called her Vet to get her in ASAP. The Vet took a fluid sample and confirmed the dreaded cancer...Mammary cancer. July 20th she had surgery to remove her right mammary glands. Then she started her chemo treatments. She did good no side affects, after the 4 chemo treatments there were no signs of any more cancer...so she is a survivor. I took my sweet Tallulah in for her check up in February, they did x rays and some spots showed up on her lung. She went for a CT scan to see what was going on, after the scan she did not want to wake up, she had to be transported to her Vet specialist where they could get her in an incubator with oxygen, her body wasn't taking in the oxygen. I got to her and stayed with her for hours, soon she was responding but they kept her to make sure she could breath on her own, my sweet Tallulah is a fighter and she did indeed breath on her own, so I was able to take her home. They confirmed that the tumors had spread to her lungs, she is now getting chemo treatments again and she is having trouble with her veins they collapse when they try to put needles in her for her treatment, this week she wasn't able to have her treatment, I will be taking my Tallulah next week to try again...if they are unable to do the chemo I have made the decision to not put her through anymore. Her prognoses from February was 6 months to a year...the shame of this is girl kitties that get breast cancer don't survive, they either die from breast cancer or if they are like Tallulah survived that, but now has lung cancer. This is so devastating to me knowing no matter what I have done I will loose my sweet precious Tallulah...she is still fighting and so I am.. My Tallulah has been asked by a kitty friend to be her Mom's team Mascot for her 3 day breast cancer walk in San Francisco so we can get the word out that cats and dogs do indeed get cancer even breast cancer, but unlike humans girl kitties don't survive...Tallulah is still here and I cherish each day I have her, but they day will come when she won't and I can't even think about not having her in my life..