Finally

Hello my suckas! First of all I have to thank Antonio and the other Sucka for my picture. Except for my red eyes, it's not bad. Just kidding, thanks guys. I have been so bad about posting, but we finally had an interesting surgery today. There was a 12(?) year old shepherd mix who had presented for incontinence and an ultrasound showed she had a pretty large mass. So we get into the surgery and this thing is big and attached in many places! I spent alot of time just holding stuff out of the way, then once the surgeon starting cutting the tumor out, just holding the tumor. This thing was about the size of a WNBA basketball, lots of blood vessels in it, other little growths on it, nasty stuff. It was firmly attached to the spleen and the pancreas, but the doctor said it was probably a splenic tumor. Well that didn't look good, and the dog's liver was a mess. Even if that wasn't from the tumor, this dog was looking at liver failure in a few weeks or months. The surgeon spoke with the owner and they decided to euthanize. We reccommend doing it while the animal is still under anesthesia, it's tough to recover an animal, especially an older one, to give the family time to get there. It's pain free to do it while they are still out. So although the ending was sad, it was a good surgery to see, people kept coming in to see the tumor and the liver and stuff.

Now I will try to be better about posting, I know what is a "routine" surgery for us may be interesting to you all. I'll let you know about this past weekend sometime this week too. No strip clubs this time.

See ya suckas!