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Old December 12th, 2009, 10:57 AM
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All bad news all the time...

So we (I and the vet) thought Oscar had been doing really well. She's been listening to his lungs and things have sounded clear. While he was showing signs of pain, we got an X-ray (she calls it a cat-o-gram ) and his lung X-rays came back terribly! She sent them to the specialist and he said that his lungs are worse than they were before.

He wants to do a lung aspiration which is an unanesthetized procedure where they insert a needle into the pleura of the lung and withdraw what is called (according to the specialist) lung juice.

It's diagnostic and I'm frantic about it. Last time we took Oscar up, by the time we got there he was in such distress, they spent the first hour trying to get him calmed down enough to examine him. I don't see this going well.

I'm just about in tears - I just don't know what to do anymore.
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Old December 12th, 2009, 11:16 AM
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Oh, rjesak , I'm so sorry Oscar continues to have problems. :sad: I've got no advice but wanted to send along the :grouphug and some
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Old December 12th, 2009, 11:31 AM
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Oh no,poor Oscar,poor you
Are the vets saying anything about what his chances are to survive this??
Not something you want to think about I am sure:sad:
I hope the vets are honest with you,before Oscar has to suffer through more painful procedures.
However if his chances are good,it's a different story
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Old December 12th, 2009, 02:38 PM
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I'm so sorry Oscar is still not doing well. I can't imagine having to have something like that done with no anesthesia.

Oscar gets better.
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Old December 13th, 2009, 05:48 AM
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Thanks so much for your well wishes everyone. They mean a lot. I've scheduled a consult with the vet so I can find out what the point of all this is. The aspiration is purely diagnostic so I want to know what the vet thinks might be wrong first and if he thinks it might be treatable. I don't want to put Oscar through this just so I can put a name to what's wrong.

The worst thing is that, like a self-fulfilling prophecy, Oscar SOUNDS terrible now. He'd had us fooled because his breathing sounded so good but it usually sounds labored now. The inhalers help a little briefly and HE seems happy enough but it's hard to listen to.

Well, again, thanks for the support everyone. I'm so glad I found this website. I'll let you know what I hear from the vet tomorrow.
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Old December 13th, 2009, 12:30 PM
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Yikes, you and Oscar are really having a rough go of it!! Definitely would be good to ask the vet, if this procedure even provides a diagnosis, how that would change the treatment plan. No sense putting him through that if everything remains the same. Or if the treatment is worse than the disease, etc.

Good luck. Let us know what transpires.
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