However, lumps or lesions due to tongue cancer are not always painful. Other symptoms of tongue cancer can include swollen lymph glands, especially in the neck. This is called lymphedema and may be a sign that the tongue cancer has spread beyond the tongues into the deeper tissues of the mouth and neck.
If your dog needs a plasma transfusion or any other type of blood transfusion, your vet will match your dog's blood type to the donor dog's blood type. He'll also cross match the antibodies in your dog's blood to those in the donor dog's blood, to make sure your dog doesn't suffer an allergic reaction.
But dogs that have blood glucose levels persistently greater than 200mg/dL have diabetes. With the medicines of today, there is no way you can duplicate the normal situation with injected insulin. The best you can hope for is to keep your pet's blood sugar level between 100mg/dL and 150mg/dL. Occasional owners can attain that, but most will find that their dogs peak (spike) considerably higher. Larger or more frequent doses of insulin will drive down these glucose spikes.