Friday, December 11, 2015

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.

Friday, December 4, 2015

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...