A Patient's Tale

Many people who come to us have pre-conceptions about treatments and understandably find it hard to know whether they are doing the right thing. We always recommend that animals are at least brought to see us before any decisions are made but we felt it may be reassuring for clients to be able to read personal accounts from some of our existing clients. The stories below are from clients who have visited our Hospital. It has been a pleasure to be involved with the care of these two characters and they each have problems which focus on different aspects of our referral service.

Oscar's Tale

Oscar is a four year old male neutered lab x vizla who was referred to us after developing a cough in August which had not resolved. There had not been a response to antibiotics or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Oscar remained bright in himself and his owner did not report any obvious general symptoms.

Oscar had x rays from the referring practice that were inconclusive we decided to do a CT scan of his chest. This scan showed the airways branching off to the accessory lung lobe obstructed by what appeared to be an inhaled foreign body.  Nele Van den Steen, one of our  specialists in Internal Medicine, then  proceeded with bronchoscopy confirming  the presence of a foreign body of a very reasonable size ear of wheat within the main bronchus of the accessory lobe. This was removed endoscopically. Pictured above is the rather large ear of wheat next to an AA battery! Oscar is currently recovering well with antibiotics to treat the subsequent pneumonia and we hope he will soon be back to bothering his sister (Pictured is Oscar at the top of the picture with his sister at the front).