[dianaww]

Teddy he is doing OK today, I have spoken to my vet and got the blood tests back they show his white cells are just about normal still, BUT they have gone down a little in ONE WEEK since the first normal one we had at the vet hospital. THEY WERE LOW FOR THREE MONTHS!

The vet hospital apparently suggests we re-do another Ultrasound on his Spleen and another biopsy just to make sure it isn't changing, and definitely is benign.

BUT we are not going to put him through that again, Because if it is cancer on the spleen he isn't well enough to have his spleen removed anyway, and if it Metastasis it would only give him 6 months or less to live.

He is so happy at home & he has had enough in the past 3 months, of vets & tests etc, we have to hope the first tests were correct and it is a benign nodule, and that it doesn't grow any larger and rupture.

With any other dog who hasn't his nature, I may of had another ultraound and the spleen removed if needed, but he wouldn't survive all that.

He has been through too much and has other illnesses besides the spleen nodule, that are worrying too. If this was the ONLY issue, it wouldn't of been as bad.

The other things make him weaker.

We have decided for him, the kindest and best way forward is to keep him away from vets UNLESS HE REALLY NEEDS ONE, and let him enjoy to the fullest he can, the life he has left, whether that be a day, a week, a month, a year or more.... He will be happy, WE OWE HIM THAT, he has been through so so much with us and he needs to have peace now.

If it has been my other two Yorkies, they would of been able to manage another biopsy and an op, but not Teddy.

He has a different personality and a different medical history, just one more sedation and Ultrasound and needle aspirates could kill him, and I doubt he'd get through an op to remove his spleen.

It is awful as want him here for as long as I can have, but it ISN'T about me, it is about HIM and what HE NEEDS x