Monday, we took Dude to the vet to be neutered, chipped, and have his cyst looked at. Casey left to drop him off at the same time I left for work and we met there to pick him up together on my way home. The surgery went pretty well, but there was a little bit of blood still around the incision that didn’t dry up right away. The vet looked at his cyst and said it was infected pretty badly. I figured that it was infected but when I told him I had been tending to it with hydrogen peroxide to clean it, he said that just made it worse. Now don’t I feel like a bad mommy! The vet said that cysts are pretty common in dogs under a year old and that 50% of cases go away with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medications. The vet didn’t remove the cyst because it was too big and I guess it would be a pretty big ordeal with skin flaps and that sort of thing if he tried. The vet said we’d see if the infection went away and it went away on its own before discussing removal any further. He was nothing like his normal self when we picked him up to go home. It was so hard for us to see him like that but he was still pretty drugged up. We figured it was partly because he was in pain and partlybecause he was trying to guilt us for letting the vet do all of that to him. He couldn’t even jump on the couch and slept most of the night on the floor. When we went upstairs to get ready for bed, he didn’t follow like he normally does and it wasn’t until we were already in bed with the lights off that he made the trek up. He managed to make it up all the stairs but was still a little hesistant about jumping on the ottoman so he could get on the bed. He eventually worked up the courage and other than some restlessness, he did pretty good for the rest of the night.
Casey took Dude back to the vet this morning for his follow up appointment. Even after his ordeal on Monday, Dude wasn’t scared to go back to the vet. On the other hand, when Stoli went in for her follow up I had to yank her inside because she has already made the association that the vet equaled torture. They changed the bandage around his paw and said that it looked better and that they would look at it again on Monday. He is having some swelling from his neutering so hopefully by his Monday appointment that goes down or away completely. I’m not really sure what they’ll do if it doesn’t. Maybe up his anti-inflammatory meds?
I found out that for some reason this is a site I’m able to get to from work. So strange because they block a lot of other sites. I’m even able to get to more than most because I’m in a special group for purchasing. Other people can’t even see images on shopping websites like Amazon or Target. Well my lunch is over now, back to it…