First, let me thank everyone for their kind emails. It's wonderful to have an extended family out there to count on when you're going through something that makes you feel like you're in it all by yourself! You're really not! Thank you!!!!
Eddie and Hannah both underwent surgery on Friday. Here's how things went... First, Eddie... When the vet was in there she found that the tooth root bed on the other side of his face was also affected and starting to abcess, so he ended up getting both big upper molars pulled one on each side. She did a beautiful job stitching the holes on his face back together. She said the holes were right down to bone, so she had to pull muscle and tendons back across. He's got 3 layers of stiches. He's not bothering with the stitches at all, but we're having a very hard time getting him to eat. I've tried soaking his food, canned dog food and everything and he's just not interested in eating. He is also having some problems with his back end and walking, so we got him to the chiropractor on Saturday. He's just all bunched up from the surgery and being turned over and over to be worked on. A few more adjustments and he should be fine. Of course, all day yesterday, I was wondering if we did the right thing by putting him through this as he does not seem to be bouncing back and is really depressed. It also doesn't help to know that 2 years ago our previous vet put Eddie under to remove THAT tooth, but decided not too because they could not find any indication that there was a problem, so we wasted a lot of money at that time for nothing. They did not even do x-rays! Had THAT tooth been pulled 2 years ago like they were supposed to we're sure his face would have healed up on it's own long ago. However, Rob reminded me that it's been 2 years this way (and trying to get vets to do SOMETHING) so he may take a bit more time to bounce back. Let's hope so. On Thursday night at 11:20 p.m. we got a call from our new wonderful vet.. she had just gotten the results from the radiologist. He feels that it is a swollen lymph gland and that we should definitely pursue surgery. She wanted to make sure we knew right away as she is fully aware of the MH in this line and wanted to set our minds at rest as quickly as possible. Now that's a dedicated vet and one that I want on our side. We had been looking for a new vet for the last 2 years after ours retired. I'm glad we found her! So Hannah did undergo surgery to have the growth removed from between her toes. It has been sent off for biopsy but we won't know until about Wednesday what we're looking at. The vet did laser surgery and she said everything went very well. Hannah has to keep a bandage on her foot (looks like a golf club!) for one week so the pressure from standing on her foot does not pull the stitches apart. She's being very good at getting it covered before going outside. The vet gave us IV bags to go over the bandage.Those are the greatest thing... really thing and much better than grocery bags. Hannah is running around like nothing even happened to her foot. She's not even limping. She's bounced back really well. Now it's just a matter of waiting for the biopsy results. I'll let you know what we find out... everyone keep their fingers crossed that it's benign. Sherry & Rob Hartung [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kitchener Ontario Canada
