g a l o d y

Took Slate back for another check-up today.  This was our 11th vet appointment in the past month, with one or other of the dogs.  Between Grey’s stitches and Slate’s MCT scare, we seem to be living at the vet.

Slate’s wound looks really good and is pretty much healed up now, but one of the holes where the drain came out is still open and leaking some clear fluid.  The vet says this is probably good, because it’s better that it comes out than stays inside and has to be reabsorbed by the body.

However, she can’t have any off-lead exercise until this hole has healed up, because the risk of infection would be too high.

She is still on the ABs, and we have another 4 more days of them.  We have to go back on Friday for another check-up.

Today we also repeated the 3 FNAs which came back as inconclusive last week.  If they are inconclusive again, I’m really not sure what we’ll do.  A biopsy (the next most invasive option) would probably require general anaesthetic and I don’t know that we’re prepared to put her through that when, statistically, the lumps are likely to be benign.

But let’s wait and see, we’re not there yet.

I’ve been doing a lot of research into nutrition and oncology over these past few weeks.  It has been a steep learning curve, which deserves its own post, so I’m saving it up for a rainy day with no other news to report.