That's What I Thought!

So vet 2 calls bright and early this morning, returning my phone call, and she said:
1. There are A LOT of transitional cells in the urine. Often transistional cells come from the bladder, and a huge amount of them can be indicative of a tumor.
2. Rosie's  bladder wall was about 3/4 inch thick (normal is about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick) so that tells her the stones have been in there a while rolling around and getting bigger, and callousing the bladder causing it to thicken.
3. The ENTIRE bladder was thick. Not just a section of it. So if there was a tumor, it would be the only one of it's kind that she has seen in 20+ years of being a vet. Usually tumors grow in one spot and get bigger, they don't grow evenly throughout the entire muscle. She felt around in there, looked in there, flushed it all out with water, did NOT see a tumor.
4. If it was a tumor, Rosie should still be peeing blood (she isn't) She should be getting weaker (she isn't) She should be refusing to eat (she isn't)....
 so bottom line.... yes there were transitional cells in the urine, and NO (cue your inner arnold swartzenagger)
"It's not a tumor!"