surgery

My dog stopped vomitting but as she hasn't recovered her appetite yet I decided to have her go under surgery. The doctor is sure that something still remains in her small intestine. According to the doctor, it is harder for us to see the emotions of those smashed-face dogs like bulldogs and pugs from their face expression than that of long-nosed dogs. So there might be a chance that she is suffering even she looks okay and although she stopped puking, it's just because of the current location of the foreign material in the gut and she might start puking again when it moves forward a bit.

The fear is that french bulldogs tend to fall respiratory failure after a surgery but the worst case this time is that if the thing she swallowed remains at the same location in the gut for long time, it eventually gets adhesive to the gut wall and causes damages or rupture of the gut. If that thing causes damage, we have to sever some part of the intestine but if it doesn't we just open the small intestine to take out that material.

It was kind of hard to make such a decision to take a surgery or not cause we never know which causes good result. Doctors give us advice but they don't force us to choose which solution. In my dog's case she might suffer respiratory problem if she takes surgery but she might also suffer gut necrosis if she doesn't take it. I wonder if doctors don't assert one method in fear of the case they fail that method they chose but it IS an owner's responsibility to decide things about his pet so I can't blame them.

I already left her at the clinic so I'm just hoping that the surgery is going well. Cross fingers for her!

(' ε')/ necrosis: cell death caused when cell degeneration persists or worsens., or when injury is severe. 4 general machanisms for cause of necrosis are: impaired energy production, impared cell membrane function, metabolic derangement and genetic abnormalities.