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Personal Story - Ferris’ Story (Splenic Hemangiosarcoma) Rick Simpson Cannabis Oil For Pet Cats & Dogs With Cancer – 3rd February 2018 Ferris is my 12-year-old blue Abyssinian and companion since he was 9 weeks old. He turns 13 next month, and continues to outlive expectations by almost a year. After his emergency splenectomy and grim diagnosis, I was told by the Oncologist that the typical life expectancy would be 6 months from the time of the spleen rupturing…and that short time was only possible with rounds of chemo. If I did not do chemo, the expectancy was 2 weeks. Yes, two weeks. I must add that this information is based on what they see happen to dogs. Hemangiosarcoma is a malignant and aggressive cancer that arises from the cells that line blood vessels of various tissues of the body. It is common in dogs, but extremely rare in cats. Even at the VCA animal hospital in San Diego, they have only seen this cancer in maybe 2 cats ever. My primary vet had never heard of a cat getting it. Typical, I thought. I always call Ferris a dog- cat. Of course he would get a dog cancer. I won’t get into the details of the day I nearly lost him. The worst and scariest day of my life. I’ll start on the day I received the phone call of the results of the biopsy of his removed spleen. The diagnosis was a word I’d never heard, and definitely could not spell. The information didn’t register. The call I was expecting was that everything was fine, it was a freak accident and benign. I thought it was all over. But now I was told I should make an appointment with oncology to discuss my options. My initial plan was to hear them out and tell them no, I was not interested in putting my cat through chemo. Little did I know that the true significance of day of my appt. would actually happen in the waiting room before meeting with the Oncologist. It was there that I ran into an old college acquaintance I haven’t seen in over 12 years. Out of all the days, times, and animal hospitals in San Diego, I ran into this old friend and her dog who was receiving chemo for Lymphoma. We got to chatting and she casually mentioned that they decided to give their dog edibles to help with his decreased appetite and nausea from the chemo. And it helped. And then they started getting RSO from a dispensary (husband had a medical card for himself) and putting it on treats. And it was magic. The giant tumour on this side of his neck completely disappeared and he was like a puppy again. Huh…..had never heard of Rick Simpson Oil. I would have never had the thought to try such a thing on my cat. This information fell in my lap, minutes before my first Oncology appt. where I was debating the idea of chemo after all he went through already. I believe in the law of attraction and signs from the universe. This was not random. This was the answer I didn’t even know to search for and I took it seriously. Then the bizarre signs continued….. A friend of a colleague of my sister chatted with me at her work function, and after