dturm wrote:
So sorry about Buddy. We know what you are going through, it's been about a year since we lost Jill to liver cancer (probably metastatic hemangiosarcoma). She went downhill really fast and we faced the same situation and made the same decision. Really hard!! Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Doug & Sandy
Thank you. When they did the initial fine needle aspirate, the sample was to small to determine anything other than "likely cancerous" but the internal medicine specialist didn't want to take a larger sample, fearing a bleed. Reflecting back on the events of the last 24 hours, hemangiosarcoma seemed a likely culprit. He was getting better, gaining musicle back, growing more active. Then a little quieter on Saturday. No dinner Saturday night. No breakfast Sunday morning. By Sunday afternoon clearly restless, and decision was made then to take him in as soon as the regular vet opened this morning for some Tramadol (we had previously discussed this with his internist, what to do when scenarios). Then around midnight he began to crash. ER Vet was certain he was bleeding internally. I'm thankful that he gave us a black-and-white "it's time" rather than slowly fading away, but heartbroken. He was truly my soulmate.
