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.

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 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?

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...