Well I just got home and I was pretty much right about Sunny. He has lost one of his lower molars and he may still have some of the roots left which may be causing an infection.His teeth don't look good so my vet suggested that he get his teeth cleaned. She does surgeries on Mondays and she was able to work him in tomorrow so I'll be fasting him tonight after midnight and I'll be dropping him off tomorrow between 7-8am.
My vet said she might have to pull some teeth and maybe even do a biopsy like she did for Storm. He'll most likely be on pain meds and antibiotics when he gets home. They took blood today and he was such a good boy and just sat there very still. Please send some prayers and positive thoughts his way.
My vet wants to do a few blood tests on Storm but he has to be fasted for 12 hours so I'll also be bringing him back tomorrow with Sunny and dropping him off for the day. I think she'll also do an abdominal ultrasound because she didn't have time to do one today. She wants me to start giving him 5mg of pepcid at night and to continue with the 5mg of pred in the morning. Tonight I'm supposed to give him both the pepcid and pred together. Since he's fasting I won't be giving him his pred in the morning.
She also talked about possibly doing an ultrascopic exploratory surgery in the future where you don't open him up but you use an instrument to go inside of him to explore his intestinal tract. He would have to be off of the pred for a while though and then he'd be vomiting all the time. I don't know if I want to put him through this or not. She mentioned the possibility of cancer
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