Bow made it through the surgery on Wednesday and they called me to tell me they wanted to keep him a couple days. They removed the ball, but he had some damaged small intestine. They warned me of the possible problems, but then said their gut feeling was he would recover fine.
At 6:30 pm the doc called and said Bow was bleeding and he needed permission to go back in and see what was up. He was really concerned about the amount of blood. In about 30 minutes he called back and said it looked really bad. Bow's entire small intestine had died and the only option was to remove the entire small intestine and reattach the large intestine to the stomach. He felt that even trying that was a very long shot of survival.
They had told me what the problems were with only small sections of the intestine removed, but I could not imagine him having any kind of life without his small intestine. The other option was to euthanize him. He was going to be in terrible pain if he were to wake up and he had very little chance of survival. Reluctantly, we decided we had to euthanize him.
We are a very upset family. Bow living in the house with us had made him part of our family. He never hesitated to show us his love. He was our friend and we miss him.
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