Hello again. I promised to keep you posted about Sadie so here is the latest. She had blood tests done and had xrays taken. She goes in with a suspected blockage in her stomach and comes out with Lymphoma. OUCH!! Practically everything in the blood tests was rock bottom low, plus her spleen was slightly enlarged. There was something in her stomach but it was not an object - possibly a tumor. Could a hairball on an xray look like a growth in her stomach or would it look more distinctive? For instance, if she would have swallowed a button, it would show up as some kind of object with a darker black color. This was different. It was the same color as the rest of her organs but it was inside her stomach. Is this a hairball, or could it be flannel fibers (she is generally not a cloth eather, that I know of)? I know you can't say for sure unless you see the xrays but is there any speculation out there? Sadie may not have Lympho as the primary illness but something else may be causing the Lympho symptoms plus the enlarged spleen. The mass in her stomach is leaving almost no room for food and it is too large to be passed with petromalt, assuming it is a hairball (we tried this already, in case). She is definately not able to have exploratory surgery done because of her low blood count, low protein count, low.....etc. She has almost always soft stools (not runny diahrea) and periodically vomits (although she hasn't now for almost 3 weeks - tried a few times, after her medicine but never really did it). She is loosing weight, does sleep more but is alert when awake. She seems to eat and drink normally. Comments are welcome. Thanks for any advice you can give me. A very worried mom, Tryntje Miller. PS I would also appreciate your prayers for Jasper who also has an enlarged spleen and for several of our other seniors who are showing signs of old age and are going to need lots of medical help soon. It seems I can't even list them here because the list is long and some things aren't diagnosed yet. Thanks. [Posted in FML issue 2445]