Eva, Surgery (Day Two)...

I called the vets office around 2:30p.m. yesterday (Monday) to find out the status of Eva. They had an emergency that morning so they were just getting done with Eva. Again they thought the bump was a abscess, but when they tried to perforate the area, nothing came out. For those that don't know what an abscess on an animal does, it fill with pus and looks like tapioca pudding when you squeeze it out. Although this is gross, it's nothing to be worried too much about. The problem they had was nothing was coming out. Our vet made a bigger incision, but the only thing they could see was a bloody, clotty mess. They took a sample of the tissue and cleaned the area up as best they could.

When Mark got out of work, we went up to pick Eva up. She was laying right where I had left her that morning, but now her leg was bandaged. She was coming off some really good drugs (it seemed) and wasn't really with us just yet. Her ears and tail perked up as we walked into the office, but she didn't get up. Mark walked over to her and started to comfort her as we talked with the vet. They told us again what they found and why it worried them. The area could be many things.

The area looked like a clotty bloody tumor. She is not sure if it is or isn't. She was saying that it could be a Hemangiosarcoma, but not sure. It is unlikely since these tend to be found in the liver, heart, stomach, but they have developed elsewhere as well. The only way to be sure is to send off a sample of tissue. Now the good side is the reason she doesn't think that this was a Hemangiosarcoma is that they are aggressive and the bump would have blown up faster (when we first saw it). So now is the waiting game.

We have sent the tissue up to be tested to find out what it is (hopefully nothing) and should hear back by Thursday or Friday of this week. There was another problem as well. The area that was opened was not clotting like it should. They took Eva out earlier in the day and when they got back her foot was all bloody and leaking really well. So we were given a Chinese herb that is supposed to help with clotting (only in Vermont), another antibiotic, and more of the pain killers. The antibiotics are in hopes that there is a possibility that this is still a very bad infection. That the bump somehow got infected and just blew up. These antibiotics have a wide spectrum and should take care of it if it is.

So, where you see her in the picture is where she will be for the next couple of days unless she is going outside for a bathroom break. It also seems that her foot isn't bleeding as much and she had a longer walk today to finally poop (its been since Thursday night). Again, we just wait to see what happens now.