I kept meaning to post after the last post that Sam was doing pretty well. We got steroids and antibiotics and the last 2 weeks have been pretty uneventful. But I didn’t because I got busy.
i thought ” hey, they were right, perhaps I overreacted”
Today Sam started bleeding again. A lot.
I wasn’t there but had Mike take him to the vets where they took more x rays looking to find foreign object or tumor. Instead they found nothing. Or, almost nothing. Which is actually more frustrating. There’s an area that looks like it may be a tumor/ cancer. The only way to know for sure is a rhinoscopy and the treatment is well, nothing we are willing to do (chemo, radiation). What the vet thinks is happening is that when the tumor grows it makes the nose bleed, is ok for a little while and then inflamed again.
I read this article: http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/Nasal-Cancers-Rare-But-Deadly/
it somewhat highlights what we may be in for. And that this may be an OSA met. I won’t let Sam suffer. He is still smiling, but not as much as I’d like to see. Nose drops. Some pain meds and steroids. And hugs.
