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Lolasmom1211 · 03-20-2009, 06:05 AM

I just wanted to tell you that although it may not be much comfort to you at this time, you did save my little girls life. I was scheduled to have her spayed several times and each time my husband made me cancel it. He kept telling me she was too small and I kept telling him the vet felt comfortable doing it, we should too. Well, when Lola was very young she had gotten sick and has never eaten much...the question of a liver shunt had come up repeatedly with her, but my vet kept saying over and over, "she has no symptoms of a liver shunt, she is just a picky eater and very small...we don't need to bile acid test her" - well after reading your story, I insisted on a bile acid test on 2/23/09. It came back incredibly high. I flew her to see Dr Tobias at the University of Tennessee on 3/5/09 for scintigraphy, which showed a large shunt; she underwent surgery on 3/6/09 and is home and doing fine now. Had I let them put her under anesthetic for a spay when she was scheduled, I don't think she would have made it due to how these liver shunt babies process anesthetic with their damaged livers. Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting your story....as painful as it must have been and as heartbroken as you must be, please know the good that you have done. My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief, but you will have my eternal gratitude for sharing and giving my Lola the chance that you have given her! Please know that sweet little Olive will be remembered each and every day in our home. God bless you.

03-20-2009, 06:05 AM	#127
Lolasmom1211 Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 664	I just wanted to tell you that although it may not be much comfort to you at this time, you did save my little girls life. I was scheduled to have her spayed several times and each time my husband made me cancel it. He kept telling me she was too small and I kept telling him the vet felt comfortable doing it, we should too. Well, when Lola was very young she had gotten sick and has never eaten much...the question of a liver shunt had come up repeatedly with her, but my vet kept saying over and over, "she has no symptoms of a liver shunt, she is just a picky eater and very small...we don't need to bile acid test her" - well after reading your story, I insisted on a bile acid test on 2/23/09. It came back incredibly high. I flew her to see Dr Tobias at the University of Tennessee on 3/5/09 for scintigraphy, which showed a large shunt; she underwent surgery on 3/6/09 and is home and doing fine now. Had I let them put her under anesthetic for a spay when she was scheduled, I don't think she would have made it due to how these liver shunt babies process anesthetic with their damaged livers. Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting your story....as painful as it must have been and as heartbroken as you must be, please know the good that you have done. My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief, but you will have my eternal gratitude for sharing and giving my Lola the chance that you have given her! Please know that sweet little Olive will be remembered each and every day in our home. God bless you.