Hi All...and a Merry Christmas to all...
Banjo...the pup who had lung worm that developed into pnuemonia...recovered well, after a few days in hospital and lots of injections and antibiotics...
Latest saga's...we have been very very busy with this poor darling!
Thought he had damaged his leg...was swollen at the elbow...in for x-rays...no damage
Thought he had damaged his shoulder late on a saturday night getting off settee spent the night with him on my belly...shattered...vets early next morningin for x-rays...no breaks...no fractures
swelling on other elbow...back to vets...MORE x-rays...seen orthopedic surgeon....no damage showing
early this morning...develops a swelling...size of half a golf ball...back of neck...not sore to touch, appears comfortable, but very quiet, not himself, by this evening...size of half large orange... not a flipping clue this time, back to vets first thing in morning...see what it is. He doesn't appear to be in any pain with it, rolls on it and everything but I'm really worried...it seems to be growing at an enormous rate scared it's something sinister, hope I don't loose him, we have grown to adore him!!

Breda

hoping for the full recovery.

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Poor boy, let us know how he gets on.

oh poor thing, fingers crossed he makes a full recovery quickly,

Breda - I was thinking of you - you just dessappeared from the list.
There are a lots of forums and chat lists about cats - where one could get some answers from other's people experiences - most times its rather clear answers (comparasing for what you can get from some Vets)
Do you know any such as chat lists/forum about dogs?
Something like this for example:
Pet Discussion, Pet Forum, Discuss your pet and pet care
You could try to search the Internet too.
Good luck.

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sorry to hear about your poor boy, hope all goes well

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Awww i hope he's ok, keep us updated

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Anna xxxx

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 cancerand 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

Hi Elena,

Yes, I did rather dissapear didn't I...I am a Manager of a care home and Christmas is a very busy time...respite etc...I had one very old man die yesterday morning, was very traumatic for the staff...not the least for me to tell the family...on christmas day I have been VERY busy...and missed the boards.
But back now for the time being...only day off today and been running around like a mad woman! Back to work tomorrow oh well!

I'm so sorry to hear that the poor little thing has been through so much so young, I hope you have some better news tomorrow

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