A Bladder-Filled Day

Happy New Year Everyone!

Molly's surgery day was a long one. I started surgeries at 8 am, finished at 5 pm, and then saw appointments until 7 pm! I was beat!

Molly had her cystotomy and was much happier with her uroliths (bladder stones) headed to a lab for analysis instead of knocking around inside her bladder! The picture shows the two stones we removed. Once the results are back from the lab, I'll let you know what they're made of. My guess is mostly Oxalates, but we'll see. Once Molly's recovered from her surgery, we'll pursue her drinking/peeing problem if it continues.

You know the phrase, "If it rains, it pours."? I ended up performing two cystotomies that day! A second little dog, a miniature schnauzer, was transferred from the local emergency clinic in the morning. She had bladder stones as well, but her case was more dire than Molly's. One of this dog's stones had lodged in her urethra, making it impossible for her to urinate! As you can guess, this made her very uncomfortable and very ill! We removed 4 large stones and more small stones than we could count from her bladder! She was happily home and eating the next day. I'll see if I can post a pic of those stones as well, as they were quite different from Molly's.