Not much today. I am hoping to talk to the family vet tomorrow about thoughts on this hemangioma and hopefully the culture will be back. But today was the first day since the biopsy on August 18 that Spencer has gotten to play with his friends (a huge german shepherd and an australian shepherd that live next door to us). He had fun; but did stick around with me more than normal. The dogs did have to get lots of sniffs around his incision sites, like they needed to figure out what had happened. But Spencer seemed to have fun running around and being a dog. 🙂
Day: October 4, 2011
Ugh. Not sure what to think about this.
Last week they drew “fluid” from Spencer’s incision site where he had the “spider bite”. The incision is completely healed. But there is still fluid in there. When they drew it out the syringe it was blood. They sent that off for a culture and also for a biopsy. The biopsy results came back and showed it was a hemangioma (basically a blood filled mole). The vet wants to wait for the culture results before we decide what to do. UGH! I don’t think he can do another surgery right now because the chemo slows healing so much. But who knows. I don’t even understand how something like this can come up. Did it maybe cause the problem in the first place? But if so, they removed a LOT of tissue with the surgery to remove the necrotic tissue, so how would this thing still be there.
I have no clue what to think. I’ll update when I know more.