But today she looked terrible. Sunken eyes, very very weak. So i jumped into emergency mode. warmth fluids and Abs but i could feel a solid lump in her abdomen which did not feel good. Unfortunately she showed no improvement and passed. So did a quick PM to see what was happening. As you'll see it was pretty freaky took me a good little while to work out where is was as nothing looked normal positioning wise.
heresthe pics i will explain as i go and put another normal positioned photo up of a shingle back.
normal photo of the shingle back for comparison
here we go straight away nothing looks right
so yeah as you can see there is no lungs/air sacs. the liver is centred and larger then what i would expect from a bluey of her size. there is also necrotic tissue in the abdomen. (the dark red to black tissue.
found the lungs squished under the liver very reduced and not great looking
the problem
at first glance i thought this was a massive liver tumour but my thoughts changed as i went on
deffinitely a female left sided ovums growing well.
with more the "tumour" seprated from the liver and showed no direct connection liver relatively normal lobe shape. when i cut the "tumour in half it shows what looks to be follicles. so i would say what we are looking at is a rather large ovarian tumour which has ruptured in numerous places.
without sending it off for histo i cant confirm it but everything is pointing toward that.
sad day really, i have had mistress for about 5 years now this would have been her first litter to bumble bee
but these things happen.
regards
gary
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