My darling little foster, Sammy, is having surgery tomorrow. Many of you already know this little guy.
Early this morning he was at the vet for an eye infection. Other than that, he seemed fine. Now keep in mind, this little guy came to me from a shelter recently and has been diagnosed with KCS, PERINEAL hernia and also AAI; so he is a complicated little guy. Oh..and he had awful teeth which we took care of last week since there could not have been any ortho surgery until that was completed. This afternoon he refused to eat which is just not like him as he is a little chow hound.
He just seemed to be walking oddly to me...he has a peri anal hernia and the plan was to repair that next month when he was possibly going to have surgery for his AAI. We had hoped both might be done at the same time. Anyway....he seemed hunched over as if he was trying to have a BM. I just was not comfortable with the way he looked and thank goodness I followed my instincts on this one. I called and took him back to the vet immediately. Turned out that his bladder had slipped into the hernia and the urine was trapped in there. They got it out with a syringe (he had about 36 cc of urine in there which is a lot). Had he been left like that overnight, we more than likely would have lost him.
I called the specialists and they said to have him there tomorrow morning at 8AM .. he is being scheduled as an emergency for surgery. If he has any issues during the night, I am to take him there and he will be admitted through the EC.
Please keep little Sammy in your thoughts and prayers. I am upset because he will have to be intubated again and his neck is not stable; but this surgery must be done. I am sure they will put a brace on his neck for the surgery...my vet did that last week for his dental.
I wanted to post this because this is something that I have not seen on this forum before. Hopefully, this will be informative for people. Here is a link to information about peri anal hernias in dogs:
ACVS - Perineal Hernias in the Dog and Cat
I have never seen one of these before, so it is a learning thing for me as well. I will definitely keep everyone updated about the surgery and recovery.