Violetta writes:
First, many thanks to everyone who donated
to make it possible for Smoochie to have her surgeries.
Smoochie owes her life to you and to my wonderful vet,
Dr. Petranto, who did the two surgeries.
Dr. Petranto said Smoochie was very lucky that we found the spleenic mass
in time because she would have bled to death if
it had gone unnoticed for much longer, and being the brave
little trooper that she has always been,
Smoochie was not showing any symptoms of the mass nor of the resulting anemia.
Although Dr. Petranto likes to keep dogs that have had surgeries
as serious as Smoochie's in the hospital for three to four days,
blind dogs like Smoochie tend to get stressed in unfamiliar surroundings,
so he prefers to send those home as soon as possible
S Smoochie was released from the vet hospital on Friday.
She got a morphine injection before she was released
and will be on Rimadyl for the next ten days,
but is not otherwise restricted in any way.
She pretty much passed out when we got home,
but not before having her dinner and going to the yard to pee and poop.
Right now she looks like Franken-Smoochie with all those sutures
and the post-op swelling, but the swelling will start to dissipate
in the next couple of days, the sutures will come out in ten days,
and she will be back to her normal self, but without the pain in her eye.
We do keep any dog that has had surgery in an x-pen,
away from the other dogs, for about five days because we find that
the narcotics make them less tolerant of the other dogs.
We will know the results of the biopsy in the next few days.
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