Any veterinarians on here (or MD's)?

mkt

mkt

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Any veterinarians on here (or curious MD's)?

I'm curious...

How quickly can a tumor appear?

Is it possible that one day there's nothing there, and the following day there's a tumor the size of a golf ball? Or does it take a bit longer than that?

The reason I ask is that yesterday I lost my Weimeraner, Brodo.

The day before he was fine, he ate as normal, went to the bathroom as normal. He ate breakfast at 8am, a snack at 1pm, and dinner at 8pm without problem whatsoever.

At about midnight, I'm getting ready to go to bed, and he comes up to me... makes no noise, with a look of fear on his eyes. His tail is between his legs, and he is ignoring my commands. I walked him to his bed and make sure he goes to sleep. I thought he was just scared of something, since he had a very timid personality, and literally any sudden loud noise scared him

The following morning (yesterday morning), there's diarrhea all over the floor, he vomited in his bed, and he cant urinate (sorry for being graphic) I hosed him down, gave him a very quick bath, and drove him immediately to the vet. He had a 107 degree fever when we got there.

The vet did a full battery of tests on him, blood work, fecal cultures, urine tests, xrays, etc. They found he had a tumor the size of a golf ball on his bladder. He died during the surgery to remove it. His heart just stopped.


The reason I ask, is just to know... how quickly can a tumor of that size appear? This was literally one day he was fine, and the next day he dies on an operating table.

Sorry for being graphic... I'm just still trying to make sense of this.

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Uponastar

Uponastar

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So sorry.
I don't know about such things, but it may be that the tumor had been slowly growing with no outward signs of a problem until it was too late.
Again, so sorry.
 
Nemo14

Nemo14

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Rob - I don't know anything about the tumors, other than that I've had 2 aging dogs who have both developed tumors this year. I know how hard it is to lose a beloved pet.

((Hugs))
 
DiPSU224

DiPSU224

Member
So sorry to about your loss. He was a beautiful dog.

I lost my Golden Retriever suddenly one day on our kitchen floor. Apparently she had some type of bloody tumor that had burst and she was bleeding internally and we didn't know it. I hope you can find some answers as to what happened.
 
Ilovewishes

Ilovewishes

Member
I don't know anything scentific but we've lost two dogs to tumours and cancers in the last couple of years and they both deteriorated rapidly. The first, Taggart, was an 11 year old Westie who got tumours in his baldder and the surrounding area. It made him incontinent but the vet assured us he was feeling fine aside from that, but then one day he just couldn't get up and we knew he had reached his limit.

I think dogs will struggle on as much as they can without giving anything away until one day they just can't continue. We only knew about Taggart because all of a sudden he was incontinent. If not for that, we would never have guessed as he was just fine.

With Tess, our mongrel, it was a little more obvious as it resulted in a heart murmur and a build of fluid on her lungs but again, it was so quick that she was visiting me in London and walking in Richmonds Park one week and the next she was gone.

I'm so sorry for your loss. My Numpty, a retriever, is like my baby, a real fur-baby, and I love her to bits. I know only too well how you must be feeling at the moment.

Take a look at this poem. It made me cry, but it also made me feel so much better:

http://www.mytammy.co.uk/printbridge.html

There are loads of websites to help with the loss of your pet. All you have to do is Google Rainbow Bridge.

I hope it helps, even just a little.
 

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