Mood: Very, very frustrated. Also worried.

[lisa_goldstein]

Still having medical problems with Bonnie.  She had surgery to remove a fatty tumor from her paw, had a second surgery because the site didn’t close well, then somehow the pad near the tumor got detached and she had to wear a cone until it healed.  She didn’t seem to understand that the cone was bigger than her head and walked around blithely knocking things over, and this went on for two months because the paw refused to heal.  Finally I took the cone off, even though she still has a small raw spot.  Now, of course, she’s spending all her time licking the site.  Even worse, I took a longer look at her paw, and the tumor seems to have grown back, and bigger and uglier than before.  (Though fortunately it's benign.)

We put a bootie on her paw, which she ate, and a bad-tasting spray, which she also ate, licking it off like it was chicken.  I hesitated calling my vet because he seemed to have done such a poor job, and all the other vets in town are booked up because of people adopting cats and dogs during the pandemic.  Finally her licking started to drive me crazy and I called for an appointment.

We went this morning.  He agrees with me that the tumor has come back, and also agrees that it’s beyond his expertise at this point, so I got an appointment with a more specialized vet practice for next week.  Poor dog.  One good thing is that the cone doesn’t seem to bother her — it’s just another inexplicable thing her humans do, and she ignores it and concentrates on more important things, like food.

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[sergebroom]

Poor Bonnie...