Hi All,
Thanks for all the well wishes...well off to the vet we went first thing this morning. Vet gave him a full examination and thought maybe it was fluid...said he was a bit too young to have cancer
and it would be very unusual for his age (15 weeks).
Anyway he decided to keep him in and put him to sleep, so they could drain the 'fluid' off...he said it may be too traumatic to do it while he was awake.
So we left him AGAIN...going home and hoping for the best. (Vet said it may only take a few hours).
We got a call about 2 hours later from the vet, he said he was rather shocked and quite concerned as when he drained the fluid off, it turned out to be blood
(bear in mind this 'lump' had gone from a small golf ball size on the back of his neck to a large half orange...this morning it was the size of a melon half and went right down the left shoulder into the left front leg). He said the Haematoma was large and he was concerned why it had not clotted.
He asked if Banjo had access to any rat poison. I said no, absolutely not.
He said that he was going to wake him up now it was drained and let him come home with antibiotics, we then have to take him to our local vets tomorrow morning for further blood tests to see whats going on, and why his blood is not clotting.
So, upset but thinking OK...lets get through this
The vet told us to come and collect him in an hour.
We arrived at the vets to find that when they had woken him he had had diorrhea everywhere, he had also started to bleed into the neck again. They think he has 'nicked' a vein somehow. But he has had no traumas...and there was no pain to the touch...seems odd to have had a 'trauma' to the neck and not to show any pain??
So he is in overnight AGAIN...and we have to wait for more tests to be done tomorrow. The vet said that if its something to do with his blood not clotting, things could be quite tricky...not sure what he meant by that...did he mean it may be best to let him go??
Breda