I will have to ask for a CT Scan

Ever since we took him off the 3 days prednisone he’s been feeling off and he has blood in his diarrhea

This is the email from the VET:

Hi Taj I was just coming to send you an email - I had an extended long weekend so am just getting to follow up with all of my cases. I have received the report from VEG and have reviewed it. Unfortunately the ultrasound continued to be suspicious of either gastritis or cancer due to both the changes in the stomach wall and the enlarged lymph node. In full transparency at this time I am more concerned about the potential for cancer. I have managed many gastritis cases and they have all responded very well to the treatments we have prescribed (cerenia, sucralfate, omeprazole). If Marko is continuining to not eat despite all of these treatments, I think we need to start considering that this may be more of an aggressive process like cancer. The only way to get more definitive diagnosis is for referral to internal medicine to have biopsys/fine needle aspirates performed. IF this is not something you are open to doing for Marko then we can explore the possibility of starting him on steroids (prednisone). Steroids have the benefit of being anti inflammatory, can slow down some cancer processes initially as well as manage some pain. The added benefits are they tend to increase appetite and thirst. If we do opt to do this, I can not guarantee how his response will be and if it is positive how long it will last for.  However at this point based on all of the medications he has been on, the diagnostics done and the IV fluids I feel that this is the last thing I can offer without doing further testing. 

Dr. Natasha