Eileen Morgan wrote:
> OK, before I look like a total goober in front of my vet, has anyone
> here ever seen a grey with melanoma on the butt cheek?
Yep. Imatok, my old guy, has one there, and a few on the rest of his
body....shoulder, barrel, chest, neck. Plus, his anus is covered with
hundreds of 'em and they go right on down his tail bone, he has 'em on
his sheath and the upper part of his *****, and along his topline where
the mane comes out of his neck (not much hair left there). His
daughter, who we lost to colic at a fairly young age, had one melanoma
on her butt also, level with the point of the buttock and right at the
spot where the hair tapers off to bare skin.
>
> I hate to think about what her insides might be looking like, honestly.
> I've known too many greys who had them in as well as out, and she seems
> to have so many, and new ones popping up all the time. JC can attest to
> the major change in size and amount of melanoma in the last 3 1/2 years.
> :-(
My vet, who once told me he considers Imatok "his" horse too, ;-) says
he doesn't see too many horses with external melanomas that die from
internal ones....whether there's any real study on that I don't know,
and he may just be saying it to make me feel better.
Here's hoping that Lite is on that side of the odds too.
Sharon Potter
Red Branch
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