When a dog is sick, it's probably the saddest, most pitiful thing in the world. This past week, Nekoh hasn't been feeling 100%. He turned down offerings of chicken, couldn't make it on a walk further than 2 houses up the street, and was overall sad and lethargic. Reed and I took him to the vet where we found his blood levels were way out of whack and the only option was surgery. Thankfully, the dr Polly normally sees just happened to be at Nekoh's vet (2 dogs, 2 different vets...don't ask). He told me to take Nekoh to his other office and he could do the surgery there, right now. It was the end of the working day and if we would have been any later we would have had to take him to the emergency vet which would have cost us triple what it did at our vet. Whoa.
The expected that it was a tumor on the spleen and would need to remove it. It turned out to be a tumor on one of the kidneys that erupted and they removed it and the kidney. The drs seemed to be hesitantly optimistic that they got it all, but after reading about kidney tumors, I understand their hesitancy. It's usually a pretty aggressive cancer and seems that more than likely will come back. Hopefully, we bought him several more years of a regular 'husky' life and fingers crossed that his 'cancer' is going to be a slow progressing one. Keep him on your thoughts!! We love our scary-faced baby!
No comments:
Post a Comment