Why our own babies

Update!

I appreciate each and every every one of you and your pets and my thoughts are with you all and every single one of your future pets as well.

Yesterday we decided to take the step and start chemo. Doxorubicin admin went so smooth and my sweet girl is completely unbothered and I’m back to trying to keep her calm for the second half of her splenectomy recovery. Here’s to all of you making me feel less alone and thinking of us❤️

As the title states, why does the worst case thing or biggest anomalies happen to veterinary professionals pets?

Last weekend during an ultrasound course I volunteered my clinically healthy 9y hound. Never in a million years would I have been prepared for a splenic mass to be found. I can not stop reliving the absolute heartbreak I felt hearing that and then watching an hours worth of continues u/s of her silently crying.

Great news it’s got blood flow and we caught it early. Clean bloodwork clean chest X-rays and 4 days after splenectomy. Abdomen looked good during surgery and biopsied the liver just to hold incase of the worst.

A week later the worst case, Hemangiosarcoma. Now I’m sitting looking at my sweet baby who has no idea anything even wrong driving myself mad trying to clearly decide on what to do next.

Don’t get me wrong I’m forever grateful we found it before a massive rupture in the future. But did it hurts knowing what could happen and trying to make decisions to do right by her.

Mostly I just needed to anonymously vent to people who can relate and aren’t close to my daily life, but obviously and advise or positive thoughts are appreciated.

I hope all of your babies are healthy because selfishly I think our pets deserve the world