Monday morning first thing we called for a vet appointment, worried about what was going on with Cassie's bladder. We'd read that this wasn't a candidate for emergency care (there's a 24 hour animal hospital 6 miles from our house... along with the animal MRI 4 miles the other direction it sure seems like we have access to good veterinary care here in LA), so we had her in at 11am.
Our doctor (Cassie's doctor, obviously), suspects that she has a bladder infection, and gave her a shot of quick acting antibiotics. They took a urine sample, which is being cultured right now (hence this being blog post part 1).
We also discussed our chemo decision with the vet. She concurred, although we always worry that people sometimes agree to agree rather than insisting on their point of view. I wonder what we would have done if she'd insisted that the chemo was a good idea since we had built up years and years of trust with her?
She also made a great point. She said that even 10 years ago there really weren't animal MRI's available. So, after an older dog had a seizure or a few, as a vet she'd say 'it could be a tumor'... Maybe we know too much. We've been obsessing the past 2 weeks about the fact that our dog, our daughter, has a BRAIN TUMOR. But the vet pointed out that yes, it could kill her. Or, she could out survive it, that she could live out her natural life.
[Earlier in the discussion, I reported that I'd read that in routine human autopsies between 2 and 5% had unreported meningiomas. I'd likened them to prostate cancer where, apparently if a man lives till 80 years old, he has something like a 90% likelihood of having one, but is equally unlikely to die from it].
It's now Tuesday and we've been monitoring Cassie and it seems that the bladder infection has subsided. Dare I say that I've checked, her urine is normal colored. (The things we do out of love...)
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