Doggie end of life decisions
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 02:39 last edited by
Great report!!
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 03:28 last edited by
Great news, Horace!
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 04:16 last edited by
Fantastic!
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 08:15 last edited by
Very good news!
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 11:52 last edited by
@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:
Took them 12 days, but just got the results. No cancer!
Out-fucking-standing!
What was the pathology? That's one BMFT.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 12:48 last edited by
Great news, I really expected the opposite when I opened this thread!
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 13:25 last edited by
Thanks everybody!
Found this online:
If you have an older large-breed dog with a splenic mass that has ruptured, the likelihood of this being a benign situation is very low.
Maybe he got luckier than the 33% chance we were cited.
George, the tumor was a hematoma.
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Thanks everybody!
Found this online:
If you have an older large-breed dog with a splenic mass that has ruptured, the likelihood of this being a benign situation is very low.
Maybe he got luckier than the 33% chance we were cited.
George, the tumor was a hematoma.
wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 13:31 last edited by@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:
George, the tumor was a hematoma.
What???
How does that happen? What was the source/cause of bleeding? Trauma? Contained aneurysm?
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@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:
George, the tumor was a hematoma.
What???
How does that happen? What was the source/cause of bleeding? Trauma? Contained aneurysm?
wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 13:35 last edited by@George-K said in Doggie end of life decisions:
@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:
George, the tumor was a hematoma.
What???
How does that happen? What was the source/cause of bleeding? Trauma? Contained aneurysm?
I don't know. I will talk to my regular vet about it in his next appointment, but I expect they won't know either. Hematoma is the most common form of non-cancer splenic masses in dogs. I've been doing my own research.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 13:45 last edited by
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 13:52 last edited by
Pretty much what I thought. Extramedullary hematopoiesis and hemosiderosis. Pretty obvious actually, once you do your own research.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 13:57 last edited by
That's great news, H. Very glad for you.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 15:11 last edited by
That's the best news I've heard today. So happy for you and your pup - may you have many more years together!
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 15:20 last edited by
Wow. If it had burst you would have been in a bad, bad situation. Glad it was found earlier.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 15:52 last edited by
@Mik said in Doggie end of life decisions:
Wow. If it had burst you would have been in a bad, bad situation. Glad it was found earlier.
Thanks, everybody. Mik, it did burst. The emergency room folks were surprised he survived. He was bleeding internally overnight before we took him in. His tongue and gums were pale, and he could barely stand.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 16:14 last edited by
Then double wow. You're all lucky.
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wrote on 18 Sept 2024, 16:45 last edited by
Yeah I think so. I saw the wound on the tumor where it split, it was about two inches wide. Maybe a little bit larger and he'd have bled out. As it was, he was game enough to jump up into the car to make it to the vet that morning, but when we got inside, he was done moving and had to be taken into the examination room on a stretcher. That was the $500 visit before the $11000 visit to the ER. We'd already had an appt that morning for his leg fracture. Note sure what would have happened if we hadn't had that appt, I guess we would have taken him straight to an emergency vet though. He was obviously very sick.
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wrote on 15 Oct 2024, 16:59 last edited by
Got a pupdate for us, @Horace ?
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wrote on 15 Oct 2024, 17:32 last edited by
He's good, thanks for asking, wtg. Back to his old self. Never knew how close he came.
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wrote on 15 Oct 2024, 18:56 last edited by
Dogs are lucky. They don’t contemplate their own mortality, although I think they have instinctual awareness on some level.
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