hi im les and my dog is called bonnie shes a 8/9 year old staffordshire bull terrior and were from the uk.
bonnie has suffered with tumors for the last few years and has had 5 surgerys so far to remove them including both mammary strips removed.
her latest procedure which she underwent was mass removal on thursday evening, the mass as yet is unknown as a needle aspirate didnt yield clear results and with it being the easter weekend we wont find out from the lab who are performing the biopsey (sp?) but it is a suspected mass cell tumor which was located just to the side of her vulva under the skin it was around the size of a golf ball and had appeared overnight in the course of the week after discovery it did grow very slightly.
anyway we picked bonnie up from the vets friday morning and she was fine even running around the garden etc but when she sat still she would cry although that is not unusual for her straight after an op. the next day however the was not herself the had been sick during the night and was continuing to do so she also had diarrhea which contained what looked like small blood clots (the diarrhea was also very violent) aswell as this she wouldnt settle despite seeming to be exhausted (falling asleep sat up etc) and when lieing her breathing was very heavy.
with all this we thought it best to take her back to the vets to be sure, once there the vet had a look at her and decided as she couldnt hold down fluid or food it would be wise to keep her in on a drip, so we agreed as we know shes in the best hands there for recovery. i called them this morning hoping she would be better and able to come home but unfortunatly not she is still the same, the vet says she is stable but has stomach ulcers causing the blood in her stools but he is hopeful of a recovery but we wont find out more till tomorrow, although he did say if the mass turns out to be a mass cell tumor her long term outlook isnt very good.
from my research on the net it would seem that removing the mass has coused histamines to be released into her system causing the stomach ulcers etc, my question is what else are these histamines likely to have caused and has anyone been through anything similar, we really are at our wits end with it and to think that she may not return from the vets really kills me.
thanks for reading my essay and i apologise for my spelling
cheers les.