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09-09-2016, 03:32 PM | #16 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA
Posts: 450
| I do know that the surgery has benefited many animals successfully but I am hesitant to do it myself. He hasn't had the surgery because he was diagnosed at the age of 5 years old (he will be 7 in January now) and they determined that by X-rays his area of the disease was so small it was contained and controlled by his diet and medication and if I were to for any reason have him opened up for surgery he would run a much more serious risk of the disease spreading from that spot to the entire liver and they told me that greatly reduced his survival chances. I made the informed decision to not put him through a surgery that would cost thousands of dollars and could make him worse or kill him faster if there was the tiniest chance he could be better off without it and he only has a few bad days and moments so far so I am hoping I made a good choice in doing that! Any time we have to make these types of decisions about our babies it is both hard and scary to do isn't it! I want to do right by him and save him but I never know if I am choosing the right thing! I keep telling myself that I am when he gets better though so I am praying this time he fully recovers from everything as he has done before! Right now he is back home with me but a little sluggish and twitchy and I am hoping that is just from him having just had all the treatments and IV fluids at the vet the last 2 days! I still don't think I'll be getting much sleep this weekend until I am 100% sure he is ok and back to normal again and I know I'll be doing a lot of praying here! No local vets are open through the weekend so I have to get him through the next few days if there are anymore issues here... Wish me luck!
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09-09-2016, 10:02 PM | #17 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Idaho
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| I asked about DX because there are things that can mimic liver shunt that actually have nothing to do with the liver at all. Has this pup had ultrasound or only x-rays ? & blood work . As long as he's had this going on I don't believe that IF it were something else he would improve with diet alone though & some symptoms would be worse by now. |
09-10-2016, 02:56 AM | #18 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA
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| Pogo has gone through pretty much everything as far as tests go... Blood work, urinalysis, ultrasound, bile acid test, X-rays etc...!!! I actually feel sorry for him for all that he has had to endure through his tiny life so far! He is to small, so fragile and so precious and loving and I wish I knew some magical way to make him feel better because he has always seemed to know how to make my life better! His illnesses have in so many ways mirrored my own! I am very ill and recently found out my life is going to be a lot harder than I would have wished it to be and having this sweet tiny boy in my life has turned out to be a blessing for me because I learned he had an amazing ability to recognize when I was going to get really sick or have a seizure or when I must take my heart meds which saved my life quite a few times in the past here lately! I believe we were brought together for a reason and that having him is such a gift! I know that some day there will come a time when things become too hard for him to handle all of this but as long as he keeps trying to hold on an keeps fighting to live I will keep trying to save him because he is so worth it! For all of those moments that I can see him happy playing... Running around with his tail wagging or that certain look in his eyes when he sees me that is of such excitement it fills my heart with joy! He just lights up and it can turn even my saddest or darkest days into the best or brightest ones yet! He is like a tiny light in my life!
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09-11-2016, 11:14 AM | #19 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Wylie TX
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| good luck to you both
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