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January 21, 2007
Post-op and catching up
It's been a busy week. At work, I feel like I'm finally making some headway, both in standardization and in people building, so that's a plus. On the home front, Gbic's rescheduled surgery was yesterday. The vet reported that the giant sebaceous cyst was actually a cluster of three together. Bad news is that they were pretty infected, but the good news is that once they got them out, the tissue behind them was perfect. Dr. Jacobsen said that it looked so good he wasn't even going to send the cysts out to pathology, so that's good to hear. Her teeth were okay -- no extractions, but her gums were a little infected. I'm a little disturbed by the infected stuff because she was just on a 10 day course of antibiotics, but the doc didn't seem too concerned. He just gave her a prescription for another 7 day course. And now the sticker shock: total for surgery, bloodwork to check her phenobarbitol levels, cyst removal, and teeth cleaning: $778. Ouch indeed.
Had a bit of a scare last night. Because of where Gbic's stitches are, an Elizabethan collar wouldn't help her -- the incision is on her neck/shoulder, so she can't lick it or chew the stitches. Leave it to little Miss Gbic to find a way to fuck with them anyway :) The stitches and the incision are of course, well within scratching distance. With the amount of fur they shaved away, she's really itchy, so it's going to be a long two weeks trying to keep her from scratching there. Last night she actually broke the incision open a tiny bit between two of the stitches and had some bleeding. This sent me into freaked out puppy-mom mode, and I grabbed some papertowels and applied some gentle pressure to stop the bleeding. All was fine, except for my nerves :P
Yesterday we also went to Costco and stocked up on toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, and other random items. It was an okay experience as far as Costco goes. We got lucky with a close-ish parking space that we didn't have to camp out or drive around for. Navigating in the warehouse also wasn't terrible, though it was crowded. And we didn't have to wait in a line to check out either. As Costco goes, not bad ;)
Posted by jodikins at January 21, 2007 10:33 AM