Mr. Perfect my behind!! I can't even imagine WHEN he got what he got cos he's been feeling DANGED good. We've got two "issues" going on but we'll talk obstruction first.
As some of you know from the mindless chat thread -- Billy's off on a new "adventure" -- he's obstructed!! I'm going to 'tag' this because it will be helpful for someone later on dealing with an obstruction.
Obstruction is often asked about on here -- and even *I* didn't see this coming. I was busy -- laundry, making dogfood, etc. I *thot* he slept most of the day Sunday. Fed them dinner about 7 -- kinda overdid it because I cooked and they always enjoy that first night so much. That was about 6:30 (cos Davey and I went to the movies)
About 1:00 I was giving him his last stuff (more on that at the end of this), and he really wasn't wanting to get 'up' on the futon so I could reach him -- but the husband and the pug were in the way so no surprise. He got down, went into the kitchen for a minute or two ... and then came back out and vomited right in front of me.
Wow -- it was patently **weird** vomit. -- this was almost 7 hour post supper -- I home cook, so food digests *faster* and generally 7 hours later it's "over" as far as the stomach is concerned. But wow -- he ralphed this big "ball" of almost smooth fine-textured stuff -- almost "fluffy" with foamy mucus on the outside of it. No specific food discernable (as in no "pieces" or bits of ground beef, nor tomato, or greens which might stay intact b/c of cellulose nature.)
David raced to the kitchen to get paper towel and hollered "there's MORE here -- two even larger piles!!"
WHOA __ TOOOOO WEIRD. Why -- 7 hours later is there THIS MUCH in his stomach??? Weird.
Tues a.m. I'm off to the vet. Because it wasn't regurgitation - it was vomit. (no choice). There was too much of it, and the consistency was weird. (if a dog vomits undigested food hours after eating that can be a sign of renal failure -- this was "digested" in that it wasn't its original form but I was scared nonetheless.)
His regular vet wasn't there -- but this other vet is *very* good -- she listened, asked questions -- his neck palpated really SORE -- and yea, it's possible that could make him feel so "off" he'd puke - but .... it just didn't feel right. Too much -- too weird a consistency
Now I gotta catch you up on the other. I just haven't had time to say much -- but last Tuesday, Billy's homotoxicology vet, Dr. Joe Demers, discovered a tiny wee wine-red bump. Totally in the skin but this weird red color -- about 1/8" in diameter -- very tiny but ...
Dr. Demers said right away "Ok -- I do NOT like this ... this looks too much like a melanoma.(cancer -- very very lethal -- remove one and you can rapidly get 4 more and deadly). He made me a topical (DMSO & bloodroot - an herb often used in treating tumors). So I've put that on twice a day -- DMSO is nasty - it's a steroid that zooms thru tissue -- if you get it on *your* skin you will 'taste' it in 10 minutes or so. But superb for making something "penetrate" fast. He also gave me a liquid (dropper) of maitake mushroom (a polysaccharide).
ut it has not grown - in a week it hasn't grown. but still there -- hard and dark red.
So I kept wondering aloud if the DMSO could be making him sick to his stomach. AND he threw up about 5 inutes after getting the DMSO on his skin.
She thot not (this was Dr. Jackson looking at him -- PIrate's vet normally but she was at the location *I* go to not near Smyrna). Nothing was resonating "true" yet.
Dr. J had taken blood and finally she said "want mne to do an x-ray??" I said YES (ooh Callie, tell her what you REALLY think!). Off they go and 10 minutes later in she comes and before she even puts it against the light she holds it up and *I* can see a round object just slightly bigger than a quarter.2d shot shows it about that thickness.
WEIRD (my word for today)
She double checked with a 2d x-ray cassette to make sure it wasn't something bad with the quipment
Nope -- we've got an obstruction. That's why the food couldn't get out of the stomach -- and that's also why it took on the texture it did -- because it had rolled around in his gut bue nothing could get out.
He's scheduled for 8:30 a.m. tomorrow surgery.
They are also going to remove the "spot" -- but rather than just burning it off, the holistic vet wants it cut out but then to set aside a tiny piece of the tumor for Dr. Demers to manufacture a nosode with. The rest we're getting a path report on.
a homeopathic nosode is very simliar to a vaccine except it's delivered differently to the body (so it shouldn't cause him to relapse into IMHA -- big concern) -- it's pretty cutting edge stuff.
Tonight they wanted me to thin down baby food til it was "water" -- he drank a TON of it and has had no ill effects so it's not a 100% blockage.
Billy, so help me if you have eaten a quarter -- NO MORE LUNCH MONEY FOR YOU!!