This Friday kelcee has to have a needle put in her tummy and bladder to take a sample. They don't put her out for this or deaden the area. Has anyone had this done? It sounds like it will hurt so much. The vet says no more than a shot. But he wasn't even able to take her temp last Friday, how are they going to get her to lay still for a big long needle..... She has lost 1/2 her body weight this past year, now down to 7 pounds and sometimes there is blood in her stool. Not often though. He says they can do all kinds of tests and ultra sounds ect... but she is 16 so they couldn't fix any of the problems anyway. He said it could be 4 or 5 different things. Hyperthyroidism, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Kidney disease, or cancer. For cancer it would be chemo as treatment., IBD is a different food and meds, steroids, thyroid, is meds. So I said check the kidney and we will go from there. She is still happy and eating, but slower and weaker and frail looking. Has anyone had this procedure?
Thanks Katz