Dog reacts to her Cancer test results.

(For licensing or usage, contact licensing@) Kailua, Oahu Hawaii. -- Overnight Lily got sick. She could hardly stand. We took her in and they found a tumor on her spleen. She was bleeding internally, and so anemic her breathing was affected she needed a blood transfusion or she would be dead in hours. Once they stabilized her they told us it was Hemangiosarcoma, and its very common in Golden Retrievers. It comes on fast and she only had days to live if we didn’t do surgery. The bad news was that even if we did do the surgery she’d only have months. There was a small chance, only 10% chance that it was the benign kind. The vet said that in her 20 years of emergency medicine, she never had a case where that happened. We had to make a choice fast. We didn’t want to give up. We emptied our savings account and did the surgery. They removed a 6 pound tumor! She immediately seemed better. But they said it would only be temporary. That in a few months she would bleed out. I kept saying, “but
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