Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 319 | You all do know the BIG difference between cats and dogs, don't you?
Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
But seriously, cats pose a serious risk to folks getting chemo, because chemo often causes immune system crashes. And cat's claws are labs for malicious microbes one of the worst of which is known as "Cat Scratch Fever" and is definitely nothing to mess with if you have a compromised immune system.
So when my buddy, Waldo would come and cuddle on my chest, I had a small blanket I'd lay over my chest just so that he could "make bread" with his front claws without putting me at risk since the claws do not go through the blanket.
My intro: http://oralcancersupport.org/forums/ubbt...3644#Post16364409/09 - Dx OC Stg IV 10/09 - Chemo/3 Cisplatin, 40 rad 11/09 - PET CLEAN 07/11 - Dx Stage IV C. (Liver) 06/12 - PET CLEAN 09/12 - PET Dist Met (Liver) 04/13 - PET CLEAN 06/13 - PET Dist Met (Liver + 1 lymph node) 10/13 - PET - Xeloda ineffective 11/13 - Liver packed w/ SIRI-Spheres 02/14 - PET - Siri-Spheres effective, 4cm tumor in lymph-node 03/15 - Begin 15 Rads 03/24 - Final Rad! Woot! 7/27/14 Bart passed away. RIP!
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