My Worst 24hrs

[perryamstaffs]

for the last month i have been struggling with my 10yr old girl not eating after numerous vet visits and no answers i finally got two vets involved last night they saw that my girl was not her usual happy girl saying hi to all the other dogs (even when they are trying to kill her) and trying to chase the practice cat (if only they had listened two weeks ago) the took some blood and told me to wait for results (never have i been ask to not leave and wait) so i knew they were concerned, they admitted her for fluids as she was dehydrated and also diagnosed her with rare addisons disease this morning they rang me to say she hadn't improved and tey had already done an ultrasound if life couldnt kick me enough she had a mass, they did the operation to investigate and found a mass the size of a rockmelon, well you could have heard me in the us screaming abuse down the phone as to why they hadn't pick this up on the last 7 visits this month, which i had to later appoligise for because i hadn't noticed till yesterday how big her guts were and weight lost over two weeks till a friend told me she looked bloated i am gutted, the vet is sending the mass for testing at their own cost to investigate the mass because they beleive it is the most aggressive fast growing cancer they have seen (i believe she is just a big tough nut which dosent show pain she just keeps on going living life) i dont want the results because it wont change a damn thing but they believe that is has tripled in size in two weeks which is why everyone missed the lump,

well anyway the reason i am writing this is to tell people if your are unsure take the dog to the vet if they dont listen to you MAKE THEM i will never know if i had pushed two weeks ago for further tests against the vets recommendation as they said she was being old and fussy i would have my girl for alot longer than the possiable month i have left with my girl till i have to give her wings due to quality of life for her (trust me i would keep her going if i though i had a chance)

[heroeswit]

I feel your pain we had to put our old boy down at christmas time cause he developed a really bad bone cancer and the vets couldn't do a thing and they told us that with what it was hey couldn't have done anything anyway. it came up in less than 2 weeks and than he couldn't walk too well. he was a great dane cross and he died at just after 10yrs, now he is in heaven with his owner dad

RIP DAD and Harry

hope your girl lasts for a while longer

[mish13]

I feel for you, I had a similar thing happen with my 17 year old Staffy a couple of years ago. He got a bloated stomach and I took him to three different vets trying to find out what was wrong.

Due to his age they did not want to operate, so we tried different food and drugs to no avail. Finally at my now permanent vet he explained that Theo's body temp was going down meaning his body was shutting down.

The kindest thing for Theo was to give him his wings, I will never forget that day but I know he is in a better place.

Thinking of you