Gaaaah!
I just realized I missed nearly everything that transpired here yesterday! Sorry gang. I'm running around [if you'll forgive the terminology] like the proverbial chicken with its head cut off, trying to tie up all of my loose ends before hunting season starts. As of this coming Saturday, I will be by and large unavailable for the duration of the season, or until I get my buck. Here's hoping that is TOMORROW!!
Beth, I'm so sorry about Zeke.
I sure hope there is something that can be done for him. How old is he? They have made increadible advancements in fighting cancers in dogs and cats these days. But if Zeke is very old, it may be best to just let him go mercifully and quietly. But, eternal optimist that I am, I'll surely keep Zeke, you and DH in my prayers for a more favorable determination of the biopsy!
OK, an update on Evie! I unwrapped and examined my handiwork of the other evening last night. This is what I saw:
The bottom of her foot is a nice lovely flesh toned white, and still just as clean as the night I wrapped it up. The "blister" that was on the top between two toes looks pretty good and has the remnants of the triple antibiotic ointment that I had pumped into her foot still oozing out just a bit. There was a bit of residual in the incision site on the bottom of her foot as well. All in all, I thought it looked pretty good, other than the fact that the foot is still swollen. The underside feels rather hard to me. On the plus side, temperature wise, the bad foot feels to be the same as her good foot, unlike the other day when I removed the bumble. Then it was definitely feverish to the touch.
I am concerned about the fact that the size of her foot has not diminished much, if at all, since the surgery. Is this normal? How long should it take before I see a significant improvement on that issue?
Janelle mentioned earlier that she had a LOT of blood to deal with on her little girl when she removed the bumble from her foot. I didn't have that issue and I'm wondering if that has any bearing on the outcome. I had to squeeze like Billy Blue Blazes to get Evie's foot to bleed when I went digging around in there. The majority of it came when I lanced the top "blister" area and had done a lot of pinching and squeezing to get the lump of infection out of that end.
I will add only that I wish somebody had told me just how darn hard that blue wrap stuff is to get off once you've wrapped them up!
Great Garden O' Peas! as Tim would say! I swear it took me twice as long to get that all off of her last night as it did to wrap it up in the first place. But, she has new dressings and wraps on now, and rested comfortably in the pump house all night long. She's such a little sweetheart!
Which reminds me....How long do I need to keep her foot wrapped?
OK, gotta wrap this one up for now [pardon the pun! ] and get the whole gang started in on their day. I may be dragging my butt around at such an early hour, but the chickens are loving it!
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Thank you for asking...my upper left is still sore but not too badly. I get 4 on the upper right pulled Tueday
