General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse and What did I learn today? Friends pt.17, 1 by Gardengirl1204

Gardengirl1204 wrote:
Well good morning everyone! The past 3 days have been quite busy! We took Murphy in Monday morning to get neutered and have a small growth removed from the underside of his tail. We also had a microchip inserted. Everything went fine with the surgery and the doc said they will keep him overnight and I can pick him up around 11 on Tuesday morning. I have realized why they do this. Not so the dog can be there to be monitored but so that WE can get some sleep cause once he gets home, all heck broke out!

I pick the boy up Tuesday morning and he has one of the satelite dishes on his head. It's quite funny watching him run into things (I know, I'm mean!). As the day wore on obviously the pain increased. He whinned and tried to get his tail and just kept jumping up and trying to get away from the pain. I finally called thevet aqt 6pm and they called in a pain killer from the pahrmacy for him. Unfortunately, it didn't knock him out like I was hoping so I was up most of the night with him.

Yesterday was slightly better. I saw a little of the puppy come up a few times. He was able to settle down for longer times. He was fine in the crate last night. He's a little antsy this morning but more like himself. I know a lot of the discomfort is from the hair that was shaved. I try to rub the hairless spots a little for him. He loves that!! So I think we are on the upside and I hopefully will be able to remove the coller in the next day or two. I just need to make sure the incisions are healed over. We hopefully will find out about the growth by tomorrow. The vet can't imagine it being anything bad given his age and pedigree but you never know. If it does end up being cancer, we may have to have his tail removed.

Other then all that fun, I'm hanging in there. Still looking for a job. I took my resume up to another nursery yesterday. From what I've been told, it's more of a family run biz and works with a lot of contractors. It looked like a great place. I could spend a lot of $$$ there!

DH is going camping tomorrow with his best friend. They try to go twice a year and have done so for over 20 years. So I'm a single mom this weekend. I did it last weekend too when DH went w/ DS camping for their father/son camping trip. For this weekend, I was given 7 tkts to the High School Musical on ice so I'm taking DD and 5 of her friends down there Sat. Should be an experience!!

Well, I've got to go and pack up the auctions I've sold on eBay. We're selling all of our CDs so they've done pretty good so far! I love being able to just send it from our house vs. going to the post office!!

I will check back in later today! Y'all take care!!!

Jeannine