{"id":8417,"date":"2024-06-25T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2024-06-25T09:25:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T09:25:39","slug":"when-sick-pets-need-blood-animal-superheroes-come-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8417","title":{"rendered":"When Sick Pets Need Blood, Animal \u2018Superheroes\u2019 Come to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At first, it was hard to tell whether something was really wrong with Rover. The 10-year-old yellow Lab had always been a bit of a loafer, so when he refused to get up from the rug last February, it was not entirely out of character. But then he declined a treat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was when we were like, \u2018We have a very sick dog on our hands,\u2019\u201d said Hilary O\u2019Hollaren of Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

Ms. O\u2019Hollaren\u2019s husband rushed Rover to DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Hospital, where doctors had grave news: The dog had a tumor on his spleen. Worse, it had ruptured, causing massive internal bleeding. Without a blood transfusion, Rover had just hours to live.<\/p>\n

The couple quickly gave their consent, and the transfusion bought enough time for further diagnostic testing. The veterinarians discovered that although Rover had an aggressive form of cancer, which would eventually recur, it had not yet metastasized. So they removed Rover\u2019s spleen and sent him home to live out his final months with his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just really so grateful that there was even the option of having that transfusion,\u201d Ms. O\u2019Hollaren said. \u201cWe\u2019re just trying to make every day the best day ever for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

All kinds of ailments \u2014 including injuries, infectious diseases, immune conditions and cancer \u2014 can leave a pet in desperate need of blood, and transfusion has become an increasingly routine part of veterinary care.<\/p>\n

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At first, it was hard to tell whether something was really wrong with Rover. The 10-year-old yellow Lab had always been a bit of a loafer, so when he refused to get up from the rug last February, it was not entirely out of character. But then he declined a treat.\u201cThat was when we were like, \u2018We have a very sick dog on our hands,\u2019\u201d said Hilary O\u2019Hollaren of Portland, Ore.Ms. O\u2019Hollaren\u2019s husband rushed Rover to DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Hospital, where doctors had grave news: The dog had a tumor on his spleen. Worse, it had ruptured, causing massive internal bleeding. Without a blood transfusion, Rover had just hours to live.The couple quickly gave their consent, and the transfusion bought enough time for further diagnostic testing. The veterinarians discovered that although Rover had an aggressive form of cancer, which would eventually recur, it had not yet metastasized. So they removed Rover\u2019s spleen and sent him home to live out his final months with his family.\u201cWe\u2019re just really so grateful that there was even the option of having that transfusion,\u201d Ms. O\u2019Hollaren said. \u201cWe\u2019re just trying to make every day the best day ever for him.\u201dAll kinds of ailments \u2014 including injuries, infectious diseases, immune conditions and cancer \u2014 can leave a pet in desperate need of blood, and transfusion has become an increasingly routine part of veterinary care.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8419,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}