I am just completely smitten with this dog.
I found out some devastating news yesterday, after him throwing up for 48hrs (eventually blood, lots of it) he was brought to the vet and sedated for tests where they found some type of mass on the XRays on his pancreas and bowels.
Just dropping him off was heartbreaking because I thought that a quick blood test would tell us everything we needed to know and that he would be coming home with me after the 30 minute appointment. But finding out they would need to run more tests, and having to drop him off and then watch him walk away from me and continuously looking behind him to see when I'd start to follow him was heart-breaking enough. But that was only the beginning.
His blood tests also came back with some abnormalities but those are likely caused by the vomiting and not necessarily contributing to it (not positive though). Without a surgery it is hard to dictate what necessary action needs to be taken so I made the hard decision to have him medicated and to bring him home for the night to monitor, and if vomiting or any irregular behaviour persists today, he will need to be rushed to an ER clinic for surgery. Just the bills from the tests yesterday alone already surpassed 750$ And that was minus the total it would have costed me had I left him there overnight (either way he would of had to have been rushed to an ER clinic if something happened).
I got Trigger when I got my first apartment at 18 when he was only 8weeks old, and last week, my little ham turned 6. He has brought me endless comfort on some of the hardest days I've ever had to endure. He's also contributed to some the happiest moments of my life, as shown here in the photo of us last weekend in Cape Cod when I took him on our epic road trip.
To any of you who know me or my dog personally, you know he is everything to me. This dog is singlehandedly the most important part of my life, and at this point he's all I've got, he's the only thing that matters. With tears running down my face as I write this, please keep us in your prayers. Every ounce of positivity helps ❤️🙏🏼
