Bladder Stones

Word to the wise: Don't get bladder stones and whatever you do, don't get them lodged in your uretha.

Okay, now allow me to explain. The last 2 days I did a similar surgery on the same dog. I did what is called a cystotomy, which means opening the bladder. I did this so that I could remove stones that had formed in this dog's bladder and she had, what appeared to be, only 1 stone in the neck of the bladder occluding the urethra. Yesterday I performed the surgery and after what seemed to be hours of flushing the bladder and getting more stones out and repeating, I finally, or so I thought, got all the stones out of the bladder. Well today she's straining to urinate again and so we took more radiographs and low and behold there are still more stones in her bladder and a stone still in her urethra. This time my boss scrubbed in on the surgery and we finally got the offending stone out of her urethra. It took teamwork, with her going through the bladder and rectal palpation on my part to find and remove the offending stone. She seems to be recuperating well and she's staying the night again. Hopefully, tomorrow, we'll have a dog that can urinate on her own again.