Molly1024
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My dog Brady is sick- here is what happened today as written in emails to my mom:
We took Brady to the vet this morning because he has been throwing up since yesterday morning- they are concerned he swallowed something and it''s blocking his stomach. He may need emergency surgery today, so please say a prayer that everything goes well. I am truly concerned about my baby and I will do what it takes to get him better but the financial aspect is also really stressful too.
The vet just called- a barium test confirmed that he has a complete blockage between his stomach & duodenum. My husband''s heading over to the office to sign consent forms and then Brady will be going into surgery.
They went into surgery an hour ago and found no foreign object in his intestine. So they''re going to biopsy some tissue & see if he has some sort of disease or something. She also mentioned it could be cancer, although unlikely. He''s doing well, but I wish they knew what was wrong with him- I''m so worried.
The surgeon didn''t find anything during Brady''s exploratory story and that was surprising- they were sure they would. My husband picked him up at our vet''s to take him to an overnight animal hospital and I met them there after work. Brady was so sad- all drugged up and they shaved his tummy and he smells bad. I couldn''t help but crying. They are going to monitor him for tonight and maybe tomorrow and hopefully he will be better & come home. His biopsy results will be in late this week or early next and I''m hoping we can get an answer. I''m just praying so hard he gets better & his stomach starts working again (no motility=very very bad). So far we''ve spent a little over 2k...I''m not only sick over Brady being sick but also over the fact that all our Christmas gift money is now gone. I know our families understand, but I love Christmas & making people happy. We don''t exactly have a lot of money to begin with, so the financial aspect is putting a bit of a strain on us.
So I could really use some PS prayers/good thoughts/anything at all- we really need our baby dog to get better- thanks.
We took Brady to the vet this morning because he has been throwing up since yesterday morning- they are concerned he swallowed something and it''s blocking his stomach. He may need emergency surgery today, so please say a prayer that everything goes well. I am truly concerned about my baby and I will do what it takes to get him better but the financial aspect is also really stressful too.
The vet just called- a barium test confirmed that he has a complete blockage between his stomach & duodenum. My husband''s heading over to the office to sign consent forms and then Brady will be going into surgery.
They went into surgery an hour ago and found no foreign object in his intestine. So they''re going to biopsy some tissue & see if he has some sort of disease or something. She also mentioned it could be cancer, although unlikely. He''s doing well, but I wish they knew what was wrong with him- I''m so worried.
The surgeon didn''t find anything during Brady''s exploratory story and that was surprising- they were sure they would. My husband picked him up at our vet''s to take him to an overnight animal hospital and I met them there after work. Brady was so sad- all drugged up and they shaved his tummy and he smells bad. I couldn''t help but crying. They are going to monitor him for tonight and maybe tomorrow and hopefully he will be better & come home. His biopsy results will be in late this week or early next and I''m hoping we can get an answer. I''m just praying so hard he gets better & his stomach starts working again (no motility=very very bad). So far we''ve spent a little over 2k...I''m not only sick over Brady being sick but also over the fact that all our Christmas gift money is now gone. I know our families understand, but I love Christmas & making people happy. We don''t exactly have a lot of money to begin with, so the financial aspect is putting a bit of a strain on us.
So I could really use some PS prayers/good thoughts/anything at all- we really need our baby dog to get better- thanks.