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Almost two weeks down!
Wednesday June 10th 2015, 3:35 pm
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I figured after I did the first six days in rigid detail, I could ease off the constant reporting haha. So far so good, I gotta say. Technically today is day twelve, so not exactly two weeks, but two weeks enough for me! Eva’s suture site is almost completely healed up with all the scabbies off of it! there’s a spot up at the top giving us a little trouble, I’ll get into that more later.

Does anyone feel like their dog has allergies this season? I don’t wanna jump to conclusions and immediately think there’s something awful wrong, but man Eva has been sneezing up a storm. Usually when she first wakes up from a nap or right when we go out to go potty, which is why i assume she’s just sucking up dust or pollen or something up into her nose. Her head’s a little itchy and I just think it’s allergies. We have an oncology appointment next tuesday so I really dont wanna take her to the vet before then. I was just there Monday. UGH.

Monday I took her in to see a surgeon, not her surgeon, but another surgeon. Because Eva has this spot on her incision that does NOT seem like it wants to close. Well, it was closed, and I left Eva with my FIFTY EIGHT YEAR OLD FATHER who is competent and capable for about fifteen minutes, and I told him to just let her sleep. He took her cone off because when I came back in the room he was watching TV and she was licking her suture site. Great. Just a tiny bit, and just up at the tippy top. It didn’t burst open or anything like that, and we were nine days healed, but still. So Day ten which was monday, she wakes up from sleeping with me she stood up and I noticed that spot was still open, and it looked like it had some junk in it. So I called the vet since Eva was due for a re check anyways, which we were supposed to be able to do via photo and email. I send them the photos over and when they call me they’re like “well her suture site looks pretty normal but we can’t really tell from a photo.” WELL THEN WHY DOES MY PAPERWORK TELL ME IT COULD BE DONE VIA PHOTO?! So after going in circles on the phone for about 30 minutes asking them, “well do you want me to bring her in? or is it normal?!” finally we made an appointment and brought her in. The surgeon we met with isn’t who we’ve met with before, but she squeezed eva’s little spot and nothing really came out so she said it was fine and sent us on our way. I guess I’m just nervous because E isn’t on any antibiotics. Today it looks way more closed up but still doesn’t look to be doing as good as the rest of her incision (but i guess i shouldn’t expect it to since she busted the scab off two days ago.)

Eva’s starting to eat her old food again. Which is good. She’s got some energy back but she doesn’t run or anything like that. We play a little in the yard and she romps around but when we go for walks if I try to jog with her, she goes as slow jog as possible. Which kinda cracks me up because she used to DART when I would start running, she’d get so excited. Now she trots. Hahaha. She’s the cutest mush ever.

This was what her suture site looked like monday morning. Surgeon squeezed and squeezed but nothing came out. I should take a picture today but shes laying on her suture site so I cant get a good one.

This was what her suture site looked like monday morning. Surgeon squeezed and squeezed but nothing came out. I should take a picture today but shes laying on her suture site so I cant get a good one.

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(For whatever reason, I can’t get these last two pictures centered)





     
2 Comments so far

Yay for Eva! Makes me so happy to read this update. We are on day 5 now of recovery and getting so hopeful that she will regain her “sparkle.” She has been pretty drugged out this morning and yesterday (it’s so funny how the pain meds’ effects ebb and flow, sometimes she’s just fine and other times she’s so groggy) so we are just trying to keep the faith that she will be back to “normal” soon.
And we are a +1 for the allergies! Pine pollen is awful here and I can tell it’s making Molls miserable. Have you ever given Eva Benadryl? I thought about it for Molls but am hesitant to combine it with the rest of her pill cocktail. AND – we are not on antibiotics either! Made me a little nervous but so far she is doing well.
Anyway, so happy to read such a pawsitive update and look forward to hearing/seeing more!
Kirby & Molly

   molly423 on 06.10.15 @ 5:08 pm    Reply

    Good grief. I ended up taking Eva in again and like basically demanding that they give me at least a weak antibiotic because she has this open scab so often.

    I bought benadryl but I was too scared to give it to her lol. But every once in a while she just seems so sneezy and gross :/
    Thanks so much! I hope Molly continues to have good days, and more good days than bad days! I am sure she will be just fine in her own time! 🙂

       mushyeva on 06.13.15 @ 9:39 pm    Reply


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