Glory's Surgery
I mentioned in a previous post that we took Martha's dog Glory to the vet because we had found several lumps on her body. There seemed to be no logic to where the lumps were - she had one on the front left leg, one on her left side, one on her butt, one on her back right leg, and the biggest one was on her stomach.
We scheduled another appointment for her on Thursday to have the lumps removed (and to get her teeth cleaning done). So, I took her in Thursday morning, because Martha had a meeting that she had to be at work early for. While I know putting a dog through surgery sucks, it seemed better to get these taken care of now. The stomach one really bothere me...
In any case, we picked her up last night at about 6:30pm. They had removed all five of the lumps, and now Glory has five very large shaven spots with stitches. The spots were large enough that they had to use the non-disolving stitches, and they had to put a tube drain in for the one on her stomach. I can't tell you how gross they look - the stomach drain in particular. I took a picture of one of the stitched spots, but decided to refrain from posting it.
So Glory now has to wear her "head cone" until she gets the stitches out. She doesn't like it at all - in fact, last night Martha and I had almost no sleep because she cried the whole night. We're hoping that she'll do better tonight.
We're hoping that the lumps are nothing too serious, and keeping our fingers crossed. Glory is a loveable little fungus, and I'd hate to see anything seriously wrong with her.
We scheduled another appointment for her on Thursday to have the lumps removed (and to get her teeth cleaning done). So, I took her in Thursday morning, because Martha had a meeting that she had to be at work early for. While I know putting a dog through surgery sucks, it seemed better to get these taken care of now. The stomach one really bothere me...
In any case, we picked her up last night at about 6:30pm. They had removed all five of the lumps, and now Glory has five very large shaven spots with stitches. The spots were large enough that they had to use the non-disolving stitches, and they had to put a tube drain in for the one on her stomach. I can't tell you how gross they look - the stomach drain in particular. I took a picture of one of the stitched spots, but decided to refrain from posting it.
So Glory now has to wear her "head cone" until she gets the stitches out. She doesn't like it at all - in fact, last night Martha and I had almost no sleep because she cried the whole night. We're hoping that she'll do better tonight.
We're hoping that the lumps are nothing too serious, and keeping our fingers crossed. Glory is a loveable little fungus, and I'd hate to see anything seriously wrong with her.