Chiclet's re-cytology for a nodal aspirate isn't in yet, but her blood work that I told about over the phone is highly suggestive of lymphoma: lymphocytes (if memory serves) over 13,000, anemia, etc. I should have taken notes but it hit me like a ton of bricks and I am still not thinking straight. I can ask for a copy of her reports when the ultrasound is done if that helps anyone. The next step is that she will have an ultrasound. If the growths are elsewhere that will affect what is done and if she will have a full nodal biopsy or an ultrasound guided core biopsy, and what will done in relation to chemo. Steve and I won't be going from the aspirate as a final determinator because those can be wrong. It sounds like she may have one of the those unusual JLs that Dr. Ruth Heller and a different FHL member mentioned: one very enlarged popletial node, blood found when soem of the aspirate was taken, high fever. We hope that there are not growths abdominally. So far, we can keep her fever down in reasonable levels most of the time with the Clavamox and Baytril. It gets to its worst in the 6 or so hours before her Baytril injection and then we use water and cool tiles to help. She is not usually eating kibble now but readily takes babyfood or a/d with warmed water. In fact, she has found that chicken baby food is maybe her favorite taste in the world and she wolfs it. So, that and loads fo kisses are giving her the strength for us all to try what we can for her sake. Yes, we do realize that if this is what she has that the chances are virtually 100% that she is dying, but... [Posted in FML issue 4175]