From Neurological to Mass

I had Lucas' re-evaluation yesterday at his neurologist.  Didn't go quite as I had expected. 

She was doing the evaluation, talking about treating the vertigo plus heading towards putting him on an anti-inflammatory...then when she was feeling him she found a 4cm mass near his belly. So they did an ultrasound and a needle aspiration. They said they could not find where it was attached to anything (organs and such).  She said the bladder wall was inflamed (hence the UTI he has) so they took a needle sample directly from the bladder, which my regular vet was planning on doing today anyways.  That will take about 3 days to get back the results.

So about a half an hour ago they called with the results already on the mass and it is cancerous.  The pathologist said that the results are similar to a retained testicle that has become cancerous. It has to be removed so we can find out what it is, so I will be calling my vet on Monday to set something up.  She said it would be better if it was a retained testicle.  So I can only hope it is. 

I actually thought it wasn't going to be cancer as the way they were talking yesterday.  I was staying really positive for a change in my life.  Now it is a little bit harder this time, but I'm still going to stay positive until it is done and over with.  It's hard, he's such a momma's boy and I love this boy so much.  I know he's about 8 years old, which is good for a Doberman, but there is still many more left for him.  My last girl I lost at 8 years old, but my first boy was 13 1/2 years old when I lost him. 

Please keep my boy in your thoughts and hope that all comes out okay for him.