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middleofnowhere · 09-03-2010, 05:35 AM

I'd have a good talk with your pup and take the spleen out. This may sound bleak but it is my experience: If it isn't hemangio, you're ahead of the game. If it is, you're ahead of the game because you will buy him about three months, with chemo maybe six. Without the surgery, he will bleed out & die. Barker the Younger died of hemangio; had spleen removed, did chemo, bought her some time before the second bleed at which stage her liver was very involved. 12 yo. My bottom line - what would I feel like if I didn't take the chance on removing the spleen & doing chemo? That told me to do it.

09-03-2010, 05:35 AM	#8 (permalink)
middleofnowhere Crowned Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Arkansas Posts: 12,470	I'd have a good talk with your pup and take the spleen out. This may sound bleak but it is my experience: If it isn't hemangio, you're ahead of the game. If it is, you're ahead of the game because you will buy him about three months, with chemo maybe six. Without the surgery, he will bleed out & die. Barker the Younger died of hemangio; had spleen removed, did chemo, bought her some time before the second bleed at which stage her liver was very involved. 12 yo. My bottom line - what would I feel like if I didn't take the chance on removing the spleen & doing chemo? That told me to do it.