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My beautiful cream standard poodle passed away last Wednesday. She had Hemangiosarcoma. (spleen cancer) She collapsed on Friday May 29 and I rushed her to the vet. She was put on fluids and had her blood taken and had xrays. The xrays showed a mass on her spleen. She was enemic and could not walk. She got better by the end of the day and I took her home for the weekend and was told her spleen could burst. I was not suppose to let her move too much.
I took her back to the vets on Monday and they did an ultrsound and told me the spleen had to come out. She had her surgerty and had over 30 staples. I picked her up on Tuesday. I had to wait for the biopsy results to see if it was cancer or not. That Friday I was told the bad news.
The vet told me that her was sure he got it all out but maybe some cells got away. She got her staples out on June 15th and all looked good. The vet said that I would start to notice any problems with her between 3 and 6 months.
Well he was wrong. On June 24th she collasped again and was very pail.
I rushed her to the vet again and she was bleeding internally. Her stomach was full of blood.
There was nothing that we could do. He said if I put her on fluids, she might get better for a day or two but then the bleeding would kill her and she would die a slow death.
I decide to put her to sleep in my arms. I have never cried so much. I still can't stop crying.
When I think back before her first collapse I remember her not eating very well and her belly looked rounded than usually. She also drank alot of water and urinated more often and did not want to play with my other poodle.
I had her at the vets in March for her annual check up and blood work and Vaccines. . I told the vet all these symptoms and he said that I should not worry about it.
Her blood came back fine at the time. I could tell something was not right.
He said she is getting older, she just turned 9. That is not old I thought.I never had her vaccinated for many years and I just decide to get them this year. I think the vaccines might of caused this. I have been researching this and a few dogs got the cancer a few months after the vaccines.
I should of requested an xray at that time but I trusted the vet.
So if your dogs shows any of these symptoms , please get an xray or ultasound of your dog. If I would of got an xray a few months ago maybe she would still be with me.
I have a 14 year old standard that I thought would go first, it is such a shock to me that she went so fast. I can not believe it and I feel guilty and mad and sad. I also have a 15 month old standard, he does not have any one to play with now.
I believe he looks for her. I cry whenever I feed my other dogs and tuck them in at night and go for walks, because she is not there. When I give them cookies I reach for three cookies instead of two. Everything I do with my two dogs I think of her and I think she will come back from the vet. It is so hard to lose a dog.
Thanks for reading this and I hope this does not happen to anyone elses poodles.
I took her back to the vets on Monday and they did an ultrsound and told me the spleen had to come out. She had her surgerty and had over 30 staples. I picked her up on Tuesday. I had to wait for the biopsy results to see if it was cancer or not. That Friday I was told the bad news.
The vet told me that her was sure he got it all out but maybe some cells got away. She got her staples out on June 15th and all looked good. The vet said that I would start to notice any problems with her between 3 and 6 months.
Well he was wrong. On June 24th she collasped again and was very pail.
I rushed her to the vet again and she was bleeding internally. Her stomach was full of blood.
There was nothing that we could do. He said if I put her on fluids, she might get better for a day or two but then the bleeding would kill her and she would die a slow death.
I decide to put her to sleep in my arms. I have never cried so much. I still can't stop crying.
When I think back before her first collapse I remember her not eating very well and her belly looked rounded than usually. She also drank alot of water and urinated more often and did not want to play with my other poodle.
I had her at the vets in March for her annual check up and blood work and Vaccines. . I told the vet all these symptoms and he said that I should not worry about it.
Her blood came back fine at the time. I could tell something was not right.
He said she is getting older, she just turned 9. That is not old I thought.I never had her vaccinated for many years and I just decide to get them this year. I think the vaccines might of caused this. I have been researching this and a few dogs got the cancer a few months after the vaccines.
I should of requested an xray at that time but I trusted the vet.
So if your dogs shows any of these symptoms , please get an xray or ultasound of your dog. If I would of got an xray a few months ago maybe she would still be with me.
I have a 14 year old standard that I thought would go first, it is such a shock to me that she went so fast. I can not believe it and I feel guilty and mad and sad. I also have a 15 month old standard, he does not have any one to play with now.
I believe he looks for her. I cry whenever I feed my other dogs and tuck them in at night and go for walks, because she is not there. When I give them cookies I reach for three cookies instead of two. Everything I do with my two dogs I think of her and I think she will come back from the vet. It is so hard to lose a dog.
Thanks for reading this and I hope this does not happen to anyone elses poodles.
It's ok to let yourself grieve, all part of the healing process.
