Sutures Pulling–Trip Back to the Vet 10/15

I made an appointment early afternoon Friday to take Colby in later that day.  He loves to go for a ride, so despite having been a bit lethargic for the last several days, he jumped at 5 of his 6 favorite words–“wanna go for a ride?” (His other favorite word is BALL…which plays a song in his head something like “ball, ball, where’s the ball, get the ball, you gonna throw the ball…or what?”).  He did his speediest rocking horse (what we call his new gait) over to the retaining wall that allowed him to step into my SUV. 

At the vet, we waited in the back of the car until a room was available and the very nice vet tech came out to help me get him out of the car.  Colby wagged his tail for everyone–people and dogs–coming by.  Dr. John did not seem shocked at all looking at his wound, which now looked worse than ever.  The raw spot was now the size of a biscuit and the cavern…way to cavernous for my liking.  He numbed him up, cleaned things up and put several more stitches in the cavern.  The rest was going to take time to heal and he showed me our new routine.  No more dishwashing liquid stuff, he brought out the hard stuff–antiseptic in a squeeze bottle.  After a good flushing, the raw area needed scrubbing with a gauze square soaked in another antiseptic, after which I was to place a square section of pig graft (not the clinical name) over the raw area which was really going to aid in healing…and started wrapping.

What a relief.  I feel much better and Colby seems to also.  When I got home, he didn’t so much care about getting out of the back of my car, so we let him stay there for the evening until we all went to bed.  I went to book club for some much needed comfort and girl time from my best girl friends.  A couple glasses of wine helped with the stress also.  Doug was in charge of Colby.  Fed him in the car and he got out to go to the bathroom, but climbed back in.  It was perfect.  He was right where the action was–grilling with various neighbors coming by to visit.  It was a much needed good ending to a long day.