[Dailydrool] Please send a little drool to Lucas

[Wendie Prince]

Hi all,

Lucas has been at the vet the last 2 days, having gone there originally
yesterday morning thinking he was in bloat.

X-rays showed he was not, but he had a lot of gas and was throwing up.
Diagnosed with pancreatitis later in the day, I brought him home last night
to rest, with instructions to take him back this morning for a check..  He
threw up 2x last night and there was aluminum foil in one of them.  He threw
up again at the vet today,  they started to do a barium x-ray series.  After
4 hours, most of it is still in his tummy, with a trickle going into his
intestines.   X-rays are showing no sign of a blockage, but something is
blocking, so he is getting ready, or is already in surgery as you are
reading this.

Lucas was staying with a friend, who is fostering Duke and Duchess for
Senior Houndsabound.  She is basset savvy, but her prior basset never stole
food, so she let her guard down and left a quarter  section of pound cake on
the floor in a grocery bag,  and Lucas got into it.  Apparently he ate that
and more foil than came back up.  The other scenario is there is a tumor in
there.  I am sure hoping it is something foreign rather than a tumor.  He is
younger than most the ones here,  probably about 9 or ten, so I sure hope it
is just a surgery he is going to have to recover from and not some tumor
issues.

I am heading over in a few minutes to go sit at the vet, and wait to be
there when the surgery is done.

Trying to keep positive, but really scared for him.

Thanks for all good thoughts for my boy and drool.

 

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