Meet Nacho!

Nacho lounging in the sun

Welcome to our blog outlining Nacho's journey through Feline Lymphoma. We hope to inspire and support others caring for pets dealing with this terrible disease, as well as capture our memories of our sweet boy.

We adopted our Nacho from the humane society about a month after our dear Tally cat passed from bone cancer. We were actually looking for a kitten, but one-year-old Nacho stuck his paw out and grabbed my pant leg. I opened the cage to see him, and I knew he was coming home with us. Our NachoMan is now 5-1/2 years young.

Nacho was diagnosed with Large Cell GI Lymphoma on July 15, 2014. Before his diagnosis, he had been ill for several weeks. He would vomit foamy bile throughout the day, sometimes stained with blood. He cried more than usual, and he was more tired than we remembered him being previously. We went though x-rays, a barium study and blood work, but none of these tests were able to detect the reason behind his symptoms.

We brought Nacho to a specialty vet for an endoscope, thinking we would find out perhaps he had some string in his tummy or perhaps colitis. Yes, we were aware that cancer was a possibility, but with his otherwise good vitals, we really thought we were overreacting. Unfortunately, the vet told us after the procedure that nearly 90% of Nacho's stomach was destroyed by tumors, and his clinical diagnosis would be cancer, though we had to wait for the biopsies to confirm. They did.