Ugh. Not sure what to think about this.

Last week they drew “fluid” from Spencer’s incision site where he had the “spider bite”. The incision is completely healed. But there is still fluid in there. When they drew it out the syringe it was blood. They sent that off for a culture and also for a biopsy. The biopsy results came back and showed it was a hemangioma (basically a blood filled mole). The vet wants to wait for the culture results before we decide what to do. UGH! I don’t think he can do another surgery right now because the chemo slows healing so much. But who knows. I don’t even understand how something like this can come up. Did it maybe cause the problem in the first place? But if so, they removed a LOT of tissue with the surgery to remove the necrotic tissue, so how would this thing still be there.

I have no clue what to think. I’ll update when I know more.

Author: justjac

Spencer is our 5.5 year old Doberman. He was diagnosed with an aggressive fibrosarcoma on 8/22. He had his left front leg amputated on 8/24/11. Finished 15 weeks of chemo on 12/22/11 (mytox and vincristine). Lung mets found 12/28/11. Fought hard and lived a full life right up until the end. Went to Heaven 2/28/12. View all posts by justjac