In Feb. of this year our macy girl started to vomit up her food in the middle of the night. It happened a couple times a week. We took her to the the vets and of course we changed her diet, put her on a special food and they checked her stool-negative outcome. They told us if this dosen't work to call. It didn't work. By April she was still vomiting, but she was acting fine, still playfull and loved to go for walks. We took her back to the vets and they ran blood work on her. Everything came back within normal limits, except her glucose was a little high. They told me her coat, her color and level of energy are fine there's no need to do anything invasive. That was all true at that time. Dont' get me wrong her vet is the best around here and macy girl loved him they did what was best and in all the right steps. In the beginning of may, Macy vomited in the middle of the day but it was dark color mucus. Then she wouldn't take any treats and was always tired (but would still go for walks) After a couple of more instances of this dark mucus, I demanded that something was wrong that she wasn't herself. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go pee, she was drinking alot of water and every once in a while she would have a hard time doing her business, but when she did, it was dark. Our vet repeated the blood work and it all came back poor. RBC dec. WBC inc. and she was malnutrioned. Mind you that our Macy was a 76lb. female and we were in disbelief when he told us that she was malnutrioned. Our vet recommended us to take her to a specialist for an endoscope. We did. They started out by doing an ultrasound and plain x-ray and ran more blood work. They found enlarged lymphnodes. They were not able to tell us if it was a positive for lymphoma. The only way (because it was her belly that was the problem) to diagnosis was to do an exploratory surgery. The night before we took her to the specialist she was crying on our landing with her paws covering her face. We knew from that point that she was in pain. The outcome of everything was that she had baseball size lymphnodes deep in her abdomen and it was a positive test for lymphoma. There was nothing we could have done for her. Chemo would have only gave us maybe through the summer but, she still would be vomiting and in pain. Later that day we had her put down. It was the hardest thing for us to do but it was the best for our little macy girl. I did not want to write this to scare anyone - i just wanted to explain what happened in our case. This hit us like a ton of bricks and everything happened so fast, we had no idea how hard this would be. We keep on saying that she was only 4 and it happened too fast. we miss her.
The word that we really want to spread is to not go by 1 blood test if you know something is wrong have another one done couple weeks later just to make sure.
The word that we really want to spread is to not go by 1 blood test if you know something is wrong have another one done couple weeks later just to make sure.
it never hurts to get a second opinion. Just remember she is at the bridge waiting on us to come over to play..my JoJo was only 6months when she crossed over and now she is helping your baby..
