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Originally Posted by P Hudson  I called the director of the community vet we took Turner to in order to get a referral for the veterinary college out of town, not knowing how we were possibly going to get Turner in there in a timely matter, given that it's a teaching college and they perform certain procedures according to their time schedule, and given that my husband is in dialysis three times a week and has an abdominal catheter flush on the fourth day of every week. That leaves Tuesdays, and how long would it take to get him in specifically on that day?
Before I got into that she asked if I had been warned how expensive it would be for Turner to be seen there: $500 just to walk in the door and anything else they had to do would be a lot more. I told her we were prepared to use credit cards if we had to.
She said they have a surgeon here who does exploratory surgery all the time and, given my schedule problems, the distance, and the money, would I like for him to take a look at Turner's case, and see what he thought, and she added that they could send a biopsy to a lab here.
Regardless of who looks at his records and information, I would like for Turner's mass to be biopsied. Even if an internist looked at the mass on the sonogram, I don't think he/she could say for certain what it is without a biopsy. And even it if is cancer, I still want more information. What kind of cancer is it? Is it an aggressive kind? Likely to metastasize? What's the prognosis?
So at this point I hope the local surgeon will go in (laparoscopy hopefully) and take a biopsy and give us more information.
Turner's been on the Metronidazole, Cerenia, and Sucrate for 24 hours now and he's much more lively, wanting to play, even trying to take his sister's toy away. He played long enough to make me tired. He doesn't seem sick at all. He has even gotten the same good results from when he took the antibiotic alone. If its cancer that's causing him to vomit foam, why does an antibiotic stop the vomiting and make him feel so much better? Such a mystery to me. I guess it could be more than one thing going on. |
I have no idea where that person got her information but there is NO vet specialist that charges $500 to walk in the door. That said, yes, if you have diagnostics it can be costly so maybe that is why she said it since she realizes money is an issue here. Just please don't believe that story because it is patently untrue. Trust me, I have seen enough specialists and have friends all over the country...no way, no how! You might want to just call them and ask them for an estimate...they are usually pretty good about telling people what to expect.
I am very sorry your pup is so sick and will pray that all goes well.