I feel sick.....

[_Acolyte_]

Islay went into the vets today to get her teeth cleaned. Nothing unusual in that I know, she needs a few extractions but she will be fine.

But it is too soon after Talisker, I am certain she isnt going to come home today

And the vet said that he had sent off the biopsies for testing anyway, despite me having Talisker PTS, so now I am terrified that they will come back as non-cancerous and I will feel I have made the wrong choice

Aaaargh - ignore this - just a really stressy post about nothing

 

[LynneB]

Acolyte there is no point in saying don't worry, because I know you will regardless - you love your dogs. While she is in try to do something that will take your mind off of it, clean up or put up the Christmas tree or something positive. Hopefully she won't be under for very long and ask them to call you as soon as she comes round.

 

[MurphysMinder]

I am not surprised you are stressing, I would be just the same. The logical head that tells you she will be absolutely fine tends not to work at times like this does it? Just remember with Talisker that whatever the biopsies show you and the vet felt he had had enough, and you made the right decision for him. With almost every dog I have had pts I have suffered agonies of doubt thinking, maybe we could have done something more, but I would have been keeping them going for my sake not theirs.

 

[_Acolyte_]

Thank you both, I know I am being silly but will try and keep myself busy at work to take my mind off it

MM - I suppose I am thinking that the decision was really more mine than the vets, when he was operating the vet did say he didnt feel that we had reached the end of the road just yet, but I felt it wasnt fair to Tal to keep trying when there was a max 20% chance of him recovering

I DO know it was the right thing to do, it is just much harder than I had realised it would be

Sorry, I shall try and be sensible and stop blithering now

 

[Maesfen]

Very hard to stop worrying in the circumstances and perfectly understandable so keep blithering away!
Teeth are pretty innocuous so she should be in and out in a jiffy and back home before you know it then you will be grumbling that you didn't manage to do all the jobs you promised yourself you would....................

Go and start on them now, it'll help take your mind off things at the very least and make you feel very virtuous for getting things done earlier than you expected!

Let us know when she is back with her pearly whites.

 

[mattilda]

Acolyte you should have your own chair at that vets you have been there that often. She'll be home before you know it with her gleaming nashers!! My little boy rottie is so bad at the vets, he hates it and gets really snappy, that they let me wait for him and take him home straight away. On the plus side I am not sitting around waiting at home for THE phonecall, but on the minus side I am sitting around at the vets watching my doggy sleeping when I could be at home doing something more constructive! Keep us posted, your dogs are now forum dogs you do know that don't you?

 

[CAYLA]

Agree with the others, it's only natural to worry, my 15 year old whippey x grey, had a dental 2 weeks ago, and even though my mam did it, I was still worrying my head off, my 11 year old deerhound is getting a tumour removed from his leg next week, and I will be worried until he is round and safe.
and I work in a vets.....so u are very normal.

Re results, even if it is not cancerous....it does not mean u made the wrong choice, u made the choice based on his quality of life, there are illnesses/conditions that cause the same destruction as cancer, only without the dreaded C word, so again, I dont' think u should be thinking like that.

 

[_Acolyte_]

Thanks Cala, that means a lot to hear you say that. I have just spent the weekend wondering what on earth I am doing wrong, I have now lost two rescues after only six and five years respectively at only 11 years of age

For a short while it made me wonder about getting another rescue, and maybe getting a puppy instead, but I know I wont be able to resist their little faces eventually...