Today, Sadie's appointment was with a third vet, Dr. D, who works with Dr. C. I was very anxious to see what was underneath that bandage after the weekend. Saturday night I noticed that it had bled through, and Sunday she stopped putting weight on her leg. Her stomach is still not feeling well. Sunday morning (early) she threw up twice. She's on a total bland diet now, for a few days at least.
I also decided to sleep downstairs next to her kennel until she can do stairs again. She rubbed her poor little nose raw and bloody while trying to get our attention Saturday night. We just didn't hear her, but I guess she needed to go out. Her towel was covered with hundreds of little blood spots where she kept rubbing her nose. Great! Another wound...
ANYWAY, Dr. D cut off the bandage and the incision was much improved from Friday. The whole thing has closed up, except for that pesky little spot by the seroma. The seroma was still leaking. The bandage was VERY yucky and evidence that there had been a significant amount of discharge over the weekend. Dr. C came in to see what it looked like and discuss things with Dr. D.
They flushed it out with iodine, and rebandaged it up. I made appointments for Wednesday and Friday to repeat the flushing and bandaging. Dr. D didn't think that there was any sign of infection, but we added a second antibiotic to her "meds" and will be keeping a close eye on things.
Julie was kind enough to watch the girls for me during the appointment (THANK YOU!), which was especially nice considering that this was a pretty messy and bloody visit. However, when I got home, I immediately saw that she had already bled through the bandage. I called the vet, and they asked me to come back in to re-bandage again. Sigh. So after nap, we all headed back to the vet again, where they took her back, re-bandaged and sent us home again. Hopefully we won't have to go back until Wednesday!
I brought some cookies for them and a thank you note from Sadie, which they loved. Although it's a bit of a pain to keep taking her in, it's only 10 minutes away and everyone has been SO great there. I can't say enough good things about them.
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