Fame is full of sh ... really

 Fame had a bad week, which means I did, too, and it isn't over.

Over the summer she had two incidents of vomiting, nothing bad, just unexplainable. The vet and I figured it was something like she ate a cicada. 

But last weekend, she started spitting up water, again not a lot, just once every day. I talked to the vet Monday and I brought her in Tuesday morning for a battery of tests. 

The blood work was all good. The X-rays, though, showed that she was very backed up which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me because she poops, usually twice a day, always once. 

They gave her an enema and suggested I give her Miralax.

I have heard of dogs and owners looking alike, not sharing conditions and medicine, although I have used her shampoo, which in my defense is a human one. 

The enema seemed to irritate her anus; she dripped blood that evening, nothing bad but we went back on Wednesday. They cleaned her up, put her on antibiotics and gave her some fluid. 

Also, we made an appointment to get ultrasounds of her stomach the next day. 

The ultrasounds showed a thickening of areas of the stomach and small intestine. The vet said that could be irritable bowel, which is what she thinks it is, or it could be a tumor. 

We are planning a needle biopsy this coming Friday to find out which.

So I will worry till then.