Uschi the Weimaraner

Well it’s been a week since Uschi’s operation to remove a lump on her back. We’re off the the vets in a little while to get the stitches out, although we’re not sure if they will be removed. The wound keeps swelling with fluid, which then gets so swollen that the top of the wound splits and all the fluid seeps out. It’s leaked three times so far. You can see how swollen it is this morning in this photograph.

We did take her to the vet about the swelling but he said not to worry unless the wound became angry and red. We rang them the first time it split, but as the stitches were still in place, he said that it was OK. It’s a worry for us though!

Poor Uschi is really frustrated by her head collar. Although when we take her for a walk we take if off because she’s too occupied with sniffing around to bother her wound.

It’s a lovely sunny morning this morning, Uschi looks like she has a halo She is a little angel of course.

Update: she had the stitches taken out. The vet said the build up of fluid was very unusual, but that the lab test of the lump showed that there were a lot of inflammatory cells in the tissue surrounding the lump. We’re giving her some anti-inflammatories to hopefully bring down the swelling. She can have her collar off during supervision and she had it off briefly but licked and licked the wound, so it had to go back on again.