Doggie end of life decisions

[Renauda]

Great news, Horace!

[jon-nyc]

Fantastic!

[cathys]

Very good news!

[George K]

@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.

[89th]

Great news, I really expected the opposite when I opened this thread!

[Horace]

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.

[George K]

@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?

[Horace]

@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.

[Horace]

[Horace]

Pretty much what I thought. Extramedullary hematopoiesis and hemosiderosis. Pretty obvious actually, once you do your own research.

[Doctor Phibes]

That's great news, H. Very glad for you.

[A Former User]

@Horace

That's the best news I've heard today. So happy for you and your pup - may you have many more years together!

[Mik]

Wow. If it had burst you would have been in a bad, bad situation. Glad it was found earlier.

[Horace]

@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.

[Mik]

Then double wow. You're all lucky.

[Horace]

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.

[A Former User]

Got a pupdate for us, @Horace ?

[Horace]

He's good, thanks for asking, wtg. Back to his old self. Never knew how close he came.

[Mik]

Dogs are lucky. They don’t contemplate their own mortality, although I think they have instinctual awareness on some level.

Q

[A Former User]

@Horace said in Doggie end of life decisions:

He's good, thanks for asking, wtg. Back to his old self. Never knew how close he came.

You ain't whistlin' Dixie. I showed my vet the photos that you posted of the spleen and the path report. His comment: "Nice to see dog dodged a bullet not often we get a benign spleen"

May he and you live long and prosper!