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.

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