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    Ultrasounds

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    While an ultra-sound did find Aquitaine's hemangio at 8, it was because we were at the ER already and the overnight vets couldn't find anything. While waiting for the daytime vets to arrive, the overnight vet did an angio on his own authority because he wanted to learn (he was a reasonably new vet) and his roommate had recently lost an 8 year old greyhound. I don't know that we would have found the growth at her annual. Thankfully, Aquitaine was one of the lucky ones and her tumor, though the size of a softball, was benign. She lost her spleen but gained 3 years. We would not have even been there if she hadn't woken me up at 4-5 am to let me know she didn't feel right, and if the ER vets didn't accept "she's not herself" as a good reason to be there at that hour. She went a long way to saving her own life.

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