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!

Daisy's Laser Therapy

Daisy has 3 appointments this week and 3 appointments next week for laser therapy. Today, when the tech removed her bandage, a suture came away with the bandage. The wound looks like hamburger to me, but the tech said it looks good. One of the vets looked at it today and agrees that it looks good. I'd hate to see what "bad" looks like. Her regular vet and the vet that did the surgery were both off today. Here's what it looked like today:

Daisy is wearing an e-collar. Today, I caught her twisted up like a pretzel licking her foot. I told her to stop and she started doing it again a minute later. Now what? Anyone have any ideas?

Daisy's Gnarly Wound

This is what Daisy's wound looked like last night when I changed her bandage. It pretty much looked like this during our visit at the vet. Kinda gnarly, but she's on antibiotics now.

Good News For Daisy! and Melanie Paul And Her Therapy Dogs

Daisy had her follow-up today for the vet to check her wound. I thought it was starting to look infected when I checked it last night and the vet agreed. She's on an antibiotic now. The good news is that the lab results came back and it's not cancer! Thank God! Daisy is going to get laser therapy 3 times a week for 2 weeks, then the vet will evaluate the wound again. The vet that checked it today was the same one that did the surgery. He said that it looks better than he thought it would.

On a side note, I met Melanie Paul today at the vet. She had her Sheltie Molly with her. Melanie's Shelties are therapy dogs. Very cool! You can Google them. I'd love to do therapy dogs, but I don't think any of my girls would be suitable.

Daisy's Stitches

I got a good look at Daisy's stitches last night. The vet had to make an "H" incision to try to close the wound. He did pretty good. There's just a small area in the middle where the skin didn't meet. I'm keeping it bandaged and we are going to the vet on Saturday so they can check the wound.

Daisy's Surgery, Sky's Blood Test Results

Daisy's surgery went well today. The vet feels like he got it all. I should have the lab report in a week or so. I'm going to unwrap it tonight to make sure it's looking ok. I'll post a pic tomorrow. For now, she's resting in her pen.

Sky's latest blood test has come back. Everything looks good and she is continuing to take the Kinavet for chemotherapy.

Daisy Mae Has A Growth

So now Daisy has a gnarly growth on her back right leg. It didn't seem to be bothering her, so I waited a few weeks to see if it would go away on its own. But it didn't. So we went to the vet and she was on antibiotics for a couple of weeks, which didn't do anything. So she is scheduled to have surgery tomorrow to remove it and we'll send it to the lab to see what it is...

Howl-O-Ween

I can't believe I forgot to post my girl's holloween picture. Better late than never!

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