Dudey

Oh that Dudey Poo. On the 10th, I took Dudey into the vet because he was crying when he’d roll over and he had this lump on his side that had gotten bigger in just a few days. The vet told me that he had a tumor on his side and that she would need to remove it that day. So that day Dude had his fourth major surgery in his three short years alive. When the vet called to tell me I could pick Dude up, she said that they would have to send out the tumor for pathology and that it would be the most expensive (individual component, not overall) part. Of course, we said yes to sending it out. We don’t want him walking around dying of cancer and not doing anything about it. On Monday, we got the pathology back and it was not cancer. I scheduled an appointment for Dude to go in the next day to be checked since he had new bumps appearing. It turns out that he has ringworm (not caused by an actual worm but a fungus which can be in the soil) and his body created a tumor to block off the ringworm. Ringworm is typically contagious (even in humans) but the vet says that all of us (including Stoli) must be immune since we haven’t gotten it. I guess that’s the only bright side to this whole thing.

Now he’s on antibiotics and a topical lotion to hopefully get things under control. He has a ton of these round, scabby spots all over his body (about a dozen in random places). I have to take him back next week for a follow up for the roundworm treatment. I’m also a little concerned that he has a puffy spot near where his incision is healing. It’s a good thing we paid the truck off so we could pay for all of this. Stoli’s due to go into the vet in a couple of months and I’m nervous about taking her in for an annual visit because who knows what she’ll pick up from going in just once.