Weeds

I was at Mom's recently. She needs to mow her weeds! This is Sky.

Sky's Foot: The Tumor Is Flat

The tumor on the bottom of Sky's foot is looking a lot better. It looked like it developed a callous quite a while ago. Now, it still looks like it has a callous, but it's flat now. I'm hoping it just falls off... She hasn't been trying to chew it, so I've only been using the E-Collar on her overnight or when I'm not around to monitor her. That makes for a happier puppy!

I found it toward the end of her 6th week on the Kinavet-CA1 chemotherapy. (She is now at the end of her 22 week on chemotherapy.) This is what it looked like when I first found it. It's round on top here.

Kinavet Refills

Sky had her bloodwork yesterday. We got a refill of Kinavet for her 6th month of chemotherapy. We may have a problem getting another refill if we want to keep her on it past the 6th month. The manufacturer of Kinavet had some temporary approval to dispense the drug. I guess it expired at the new year and they have to get new approval. The bloodwork shows that she is still doing well...

Foods That Are Toxic To Dogs

A lot of people don't know which human foods are toxic to dogs. Here's a poster from this news article on the subject.

Luke's Dog Georgia and Her Benign Growth

If you've followed my dog blog, you've seen some conversation between myself and another dog owner Luke in the comments. Luke's dog Georgia also had Fibroadnexal Hamartoma and he found my blog while doing research. He has sent pictures and descriptions of Georgia's growths and surgery. They are posted here with his permission. Thanks Luke for sharing your story and pictures!

Here is Georgia before (as you can see, 3 distinct lumps, with a 4th smaller one that you can't really see...the most concerning was above left eye and is really what forced my hand on getting the surgery with slowly but surely encroaching on her eye):

Here's right after surgery about to head home (for that big one above her left eye, they actually had to cut a flap of skin beneath her left ear and shift it over to the top of her head so the skin on her forehead wouldn't stretch too much and affect her ability to close her eye):

And here's right after we got home from surgery:

Here's 10 days after surgery, right after getting her stitches removed.

About 1-2 weeks later:

And now you can barely notice it!

Sorry again for taking so long...I definitely wanted to share though, because I know how I appreciated your blog.  It's always a bit scary putting your dog through any surgery, especially 1 where they're making so many incisions and placing so many stitches, so knowing that somebody else has been through it successfully helps a lot.  Not to mention, I didn't know what the heck those lumps were!  But all is well that ends well...growths are benign cysts...healing went better than expected...and insurance covered about 75% of expenses.

Daisy's Wound Is Improving & Spectacular Vomiting

Daisy's wound is looking better. This is from Wednesday. The vet that did the surgery saw us as we were leaving and checked out Daisy's wound. He is pleased with how it looks:

And this is from today:

Daisy did the most spectacular vomiting today that I've ever seen. I had to clean about 4 square feet of carpet! She's toward the end of three weeks on the antibiotic. The vet said to discontinue it and if the vomiting continues to bring her in for an anti-nausea shot. And she gets to eat chicken and rice, which she loves...

Daisy's Wound With Most Of The Stitches Gone

I think she still has a couple of stitches in place. They might be the ones that are supposed to dissolve. Here's how it looked today. The vet says that red is good healthy tissue...

Changing her bandage and cleaning the wound is quite the production. And Daisy is such a good girl!