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swelling after lipoma surgery
on Sunday June 16th, 2013 at 07:47 AM
I'm glad Penny is going back to the vet tomorrow morning, because the stitches around her lipoma surgery don't look too good. (If our vet were open on a Sunday, I'd have taken her there today.) For a couple of days now we've thought the spot was swelling, but today it's more obvious than it was. Penny lying on her back, the swelling obvious after her lipoma surgery. The swelling after the lipoma surgery looks horrible when she's standing. A couple of things are reassuring, and help us to keep...keeping a dog occupied after surgery
on Saturday June 15th, 2013 at 10:20 AM
It's been a lo-ong week without our daily walks. Penny is still under vet's orders to take it easy, because of the stitches in her chest. He says that walking would put strain on the wound. In order to pretend she's still going for walks, we often pop her in the car and take her to a nearby park to mooch around for five minutes. Yesterday we went to a local footy oval, and on the way home I noticed a green space in our locality. After walking with Penny for eight years, I thought I would know...my story has been published at Alfie Dog
on Saturday June 8th, 2013 at 12:51 PM
I'm excited that my first online short story has been published. It's at Alfie Dog, a site that I found because of it's 'doggie' associations. As I postedwhen I first decided to try this site for my writing, I like to think the owners of the site love their dog enough to put his name at the top. If you do want to buy my story - unashamed self-promotion here - you'd need to look under my name, which is Catherine McArdle. The authors are listed down the right-hand side of the home page. What...clipper causes skin rash after surgery for lipoma
on Saturday June 8th, 2013 at 08:58 AM
I hope you'll forgive me for yet another post about Penny's surgery, but I thought our experience might be useful information for other people deciding whether to go for this option if their dog has a lump. We visited the vet for a check-up today, four days after the surgery, and the wound looked swollen around the stitches, which the vet said was 'serum' around the wound. It might have been the result of Penny's activity since the operation. We'll take it even more quietly for a few days...post surgery for the lipoma
on Thursday June 6th, 2013 at 08:26 AM
Penny's operation to remove a lipoma has given us peace of mind, and she appears to have bounced back from the anaesthetic, but these photos show there's still a price to pay. I'll be glad when we've been back to the vet to check it is all healing okay. Two days to wait.Penny is home again after her surgery
on Tuesday June 4th, 2013 at 10:37 AM
Hooray! Penny is home and resting after surgery to remove a lump on her chest. Thank goodness it was only a lipoma. It's a pity Penny now has to recover from an anaesthetic, but while she was under, the vet also cleaned her teeth and took off another lump from the top of her head, so I guess it was worth it. Now we'll have to nurse her back to her usual energetic self. Many thanks for the encouraging comments. It's great to know that others are thinking of us, and great to hear how other...Penny has a lump
on Monday June 3rd, 2013 at 12:45 AM
It's a bad, bad moment when you're grooming your dog and you feel a lump. You say to yourself, 'No, I just imagined that.' You call Human Number Two and she feels the spot and looks at you and says, 'Yes. I can feel it." Just when you've had this scare, the grandmother of all thunderstorms rolls across the city. I wouldn't have had a good night's sleep anyway, but the thought of Penny with a lump and the sight of her sitting frightened in the doorway of the bedroom led to her first night ever...we explore new places when we have a dog
on Wednesday May 29th, 2013 at 01:06 PM
Feeling excited that Penny's paws are fine now, I decided she could cope with a longer walk today. We stayed mainly on grass, at one of our favorite places, Willsmere Park in Kew. However, it seemed a good idea to test Penny out on a hard surface, so we went in a new direction, out of the park and along the shared path towards Fairfield. We had to stay on lead. I tried to get Penny to mostly walk on the edge, on the soft soil there, but she insisted on walking on the concrete surface itself....
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