Today was a pretty routine one. We had a brother/sister neuter/spay back to back this morning. They were Boston Terriers. The male's testicles had not dropped into his scrotum. Dr. Moller could only palpate one and anticipated he would find the other one in the abdomen. He was right, he found the cryptorchid testicle in the abdomen "trying" to enter the inguinal canal.
A bulldog named Boss came in today with vomiting, anorexia and lethargy. Dr. Tugui suspected a possible foreign body and us pull blood for some in house blood work and some for a pancreas panel. I used Idexx's VetConnect website to place the requisition for Boss' test. This is my 2nd practice tip. Using Sardis' account on the VetConnect webiste takes the same amount of time as writing on the requisition form and we are able to track the progress of the tests sent in.
Dr. Tugui also asked for xrays on Boss to see if there was an obstruction. There was no foreign body apparent so Dr. Tugui had Coreen had Boss swallow barium and took a series of xrays over a 5 hour period. Those xrays showed nothing. So Boss went home for the night to wait for his test results to come back.
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