anyar.dris
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Well, we just got the call from Ellie Whitehead about Vegas' biopsy and she said the result is she has an aggressive form of lymphoma. 

She gave us the option of trying with steroids, or having chemotherapy to extend her life to 4 to 6 months. Although these treatments aren't really sure will extend her life according to her because there isn't much studies about it on guinea pigs. Plus take in the fact that she would suffer side effects of the treatments. We can also do nothing and just continue the current medication she has, Azithromycin and Metacam. At the moment, she is maintaining her weight, 1320g, and eating loads of grass and hay. She's gone off a bit with veggies though and seems her lumps in the neck make her uncomfortable eating the veggies, not sure why it's just veggies at the moment. So we are syringing water w/probiotics to her regularly.
Hubby told Ellie that he'll do some research on what best to do and would just phone next week on what we decide. She said if we do nothing, her life expectancy might be around 6 to 8 weeks.

This made me feel sad because I want her to live longer but I also don't want her suffering too much. I'm so torn.





She gave us the option of trying with steroids, or having chemotherapy to extend her life to 4 to 6 months. Although these treatments aren't really sure will extend her life according to her because there isn't much studies about it on guinea pigs. Plus take in the fact that she would suffer side effects of the treatments. We can also do nothing and just continue the current medication she has, Azithromycin and Metacam. At the moment, she is maintaining her weight, 1320g, and eating loads of grass and hay. She's gone off a bit with veggies though and seems her lumps in the neck make her uncomfortable eating the veggies, not sure why it's just veggies at the moment. So we are syringing water w/probiotics to her regularly.
Hubby told Ellie that he'll do some research on what best to do and would just phone next week on what we decide. She said if we do nothing, her life expectancy might be around 6 to 8 weeks.


This made me feel sad because I want her to live longer but I also don't want her suffering too much. I'm so torn.



