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Title: Self-healing tumor??? (Snooker's Tumor is gone!)
Post by: pookerd on October 05, 2008, 02:38:09 PM
I posted about a week or two ago concerning my rat child Snookers and a tumor that was growing just beneath his esophogus that was about twice the size of a pea. About four days ago while I was holding him I noticed that his tumor had gone down ALOT and it was now about half the size of a pea, and over the past few days it has gone almost completely.   ;D  I am so thrilled that it is gone, but now I am puzzled. Either it was a miracle of self-healing or it was never a tumor at all. The only thing I changed between the time the tumor was there and the time it went down was I gave the rats an organic mini-pumpkin to chew on.

Could that have been an extremely swollen lymph node, or anything else except for a tumor on him?


Title: Re: Self-healing tumor??? (Snooker's Tumor is gone!)
Post by: Rattenburg on October 05, 2008, 06:55:48 PM
I would assume that it was an abcess. Do a quick search on the forums, there are half a bajillion threads on abcesses.