Hi again.

The vet just called me last night and diagnosed Sola with moderate lymphoplasmacytic inflammatory Bowel Disease. She said that although the endoscopic biopsy isn't as accurate as the full-thickness biopsy of the small and large intestine, she is pretty confident that it's not cancer.

She wants us to do another ultrasound of his intestines in a month to make sure the intestinal wall hasn't continued to thicken and she wants to put him on panacur and a steroid (not prednisone, but something else) and also switch him over to IVD in a few weeks. So we'll see what happens, but overall it was good news!

But it's just a matter of supressing the lymphoma, right? Because ultimately IBD leads to lymphoma correct?

He's been on pepcid once a day, metronidazole twice a day and sucralfate and metociopramide three times a day for the last week and thankfully he hasn't vomited or had diarrhea! He only has a few more days left on all this and then he's starting the panacure and steroid.

thanks for all your advice, and please let me know if there's anything else you recommend.

Not that we wouldn't do anything for our baby, but my husband is the sole bread winner right now as I'm just starting a nonprofit to help shelters market their adoptable animals. Anyway, we've spent $3,000 in the last week on tests, biopsies, etc. and with more ultrasounds to come, it looks like we'll be spending more! Is there a pet insurance that would cover any of this that you know of?

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