Our oldest cat is a fellow we call Koa. We're not sure exactly how hold he is, but it's somewhere around 16 or 17. We noticed a hard lump on his right hip a few weeks ago, and we've been visiting the vet with him to try and figure out what the heck it was. Yesterday on one of those followup visits, she (Dr. Russell) advised us that it was getting larger, faster, and had started to invade some bone in his pelvis. That didn't sound good, and the behavior was tumor-like, though she saw no other indications of cancer. She advised surgery to remove it.
So today we took him up there to get that surgery. He came through it just fine, and he's home now trying to recovery his dignity (and get some sleep). The bad news is that the mass she removed was like nothing she's ever seen before – it looks like neither a typical infection nor a tumor. We always get the weird things, it seems. So she's going to simultaneously send samples off for biopsy (mainly to see if its a tumor), and culture it (just in case it's an infection of some weird kind). We're putting the poor lad on Clavamox (antibiotic) preemptively, just in case it turns out to be an infection. Early next week we should have a bit more information, and can make a decision about what to do. We hope...
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