Hi Just thought i would let you all know how my boy Tao is doing.
Last week i posted about him having seizures/fits of some kind, since then he has had 4 more (7 in total) i managed to video him having an attack and took it down to my vets. The agreed with me that it did not look like epilepsy and he was fully aware of what was happening to him. They took some bloods and everything came back fine (LIVER/KIDNEYS) other than him being slightly anemic. We were told to monitor him over the weekend and keep him as calm as possible, that's not easy when you have young children! He had been booked back in to see the vet on monday for maybe an ultra sound of his tummy and further obs. That morning he fitted once again this time in the back of the car on the way to the vets, this time it was not as aggresive and he seemed to recover quickly. Once we arrived at the vets some 2 min drive away onthe way into the surgery he fitted and fell down again, thank fully the vet witnessed this first hand. His mouth was very pale and he had blue/black spots on the end of his tongue? 
They did an ultra sound and found he had foreign fluid in his tummy ( this has been drained off and sent away for testing) they thought it was leaking possibly from his pancreas(sp). SO THEY THOUGHT Pancreatitis? this is life threatning if not caught early enough. They deceided to open him up to se whats going on- his pancreas looked normal and showed no signs of tear/leakage, his internal organs looked better than they had hoped( i think they were expecting to find cancerous cells etc). Anyway turns out they removed his splean they have never seen a splean like his before instead of it being full of blood and roughly the size if a diner plate - it was 2" thick by 5" long it looked more like a tongue, so maybe that was causing him all the the pain and making him so unwell? We are waiting for the test reults to come back hopefully tomorrow!
He's back at home recouperating so fingers crossed, i will let you know the outcome.

Thanks again
Sarah & Tao

I do hope you find an answer and have a positive outcome, it is so worrying when they are ill.
Please keep us updated.

Gosh what a worrying time you have all had.Hope this has sorted out the problems and Tao is indeed on the way to recovery.Fingers crossed x

Sarah
If it helps to know - I had a Bearded Collie collapse when a haemorrhagic tumour on the spleen burst, and I thought she would bleed out.  It was a very worrying time.  She had a splenectomy over 5 years ago, and is now almost 13.  She does just fine without it.  :-)

Jean

Lets hope that he's better now once recovered.  Good job he had an episode in front of the vet. xx

Morning to you all! It's been two weeks since Tao's opp and he is doing well the wound that stretched the entire length of his abdomin is healing nicely with no infections etc.

The test results came back from Tao's abnormal splean, and that's all it was abnormal nothing sinister, however the long piece of tissue came back as containing cancerous cells :-( but we were waiting to speak further with the patholigist to find out what kind of cancer, where it was in his body and if we are able to treat it etc, We were refured to Willows in Birmingham were they had planned to do a CT scan to see if our own vets had missed a small tumor in his stomach/intestines. We came away from Willows on Tuesday of this week with the news that Tao has prostrate Cancer but once again this could not be 100% confirmed unless they took samples of the prostrate. This in turn could lead to the cancer spreading (we decided against it)  the cancer is non treatable unless we go down the chemo route (so again we have decided against).

On the up side Tao is doing very well and no  further build up of fluid has been found in his abdominal cavity, the vets drained away over 3ltrs of fluid when the opened him up to remove his splean. - this is what was causing him to fit- fall to the ground in pain (not the cancer it's self or not directly related).

Tao has been put bacl onto Metacam to help slow down the cancerous cells (carcinoma) he is going back to the vets in 1 month to be re scanned to monitor his tummy for fluid as we can drain it off before it causes him discomfort. we dont know how long we have left with our boy but untill we see signs that he is no longer well we will continue with normal day to day activities.
Last night he slept on the sofa!!!!! and had extra meat in his tea!!! I think this boy is going to be seriously spoilt!!! he has been through so much this past year what with a ruptured bladder where we almost lost him to loosing his best friend only 5 weeks ago.
Our dogs are such special friends and i know my boy & all his friends have had the best life possible. 

One question- He has been put on the 1.5mg Metacam liquid but this alone is not enough to help him with his artritus (he has been on PLT'S) WHICH WERE GREAT BY THE WAY!! He can't take them both so had anyone used or knows about the 2.5mg tablets? i was hoping to speak to my vet about them after he has finished the bottle of 1.5mg.

Thanks again
Sarah & Tao x

So pleased he is doing so well, poor boy he has been through such a love him.
Hope he continues to do well and obviously well and truly spolit.