Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Chewbacca update


Here's the deal. Chewie is at the vets. He's been there since yesterday morning (Tuesday). He (if you remember) was trying to recover from a hip displacement due to being dropped from the groomer's table. When they did a blood test, some liver abnormalities showed and we didn't know what was wrong. The bad news is that Chewie's hip popped back out (relatively normal) and he needed surgery. While they were going in to place a pin in his hip, they also decided to biopsy the liver and remove some bladder stones (kidney stones) that he had. So they did just that - about 150 kidney stones (wow!) and placed the pin. The surgeon said that the liver looked fine except one part that looked abnormal. He said it could be an absess or a tumor. Then as we spoke came the good news - it may have been scar tissue caused by the trauma he suffered dropping from the table to the floor. The doctor said that his liver could have been pushed into his rib cage and the strange area may have been scar tissue. A tumor usually doesn't limit itself to a small area of the liver. So Chewie is still at the vet recovering. He came through the surgery fine but since it was actually 3-4 procedures at once, they'd rather he rest at the vets. We may get him back Thursday or possibly Friday. I'm optimistic due to the conversation with the vet - that it's a trauma and not cancer. Trauma would heal on its own. We'll get more info as the test results return over the next few weeks. Anyway, that's the update...It's a quiet house (aside from the child).

4 Comments:

At 9:27 PM, Blogger Eric said...

All the best to Chewie and your family. My dogs are part of my family (and for the first 33 years of my life I was not a "pet person).

 
At 8:53 AM, Blogger Tara said...

I'm glad Chewbacca is recovering from all that. What an ordeal for one small pup. I'm sure that the liver thing is from the fall. He'll be back to normal in no time, with a new leash on life. ;)

 
At 10:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cute dog.

 
At 4:44 PM, Blogger k_sra said...

Aw, I hope he's all better and on all fours soon.

 

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