Nothing exciting to post. Spencer has had a great day though. His incision is looking much better. He has been very active today, jumping around, playing with his squeaky toy. then running around the yard for a bit. Yesterday he got the all clear to play with his friends again, so now we just need for them to come out to play!
Yesterday he got his stitches out. There was still some fluid in the incision site so the vet drained that off. She was a little concerned that there was still so much fluid (a syringe full). It is very possible that this is a result of the chemo slowing down his healing. But to play it safe they sent some off to have another culture done and some more off to have it basically biopsied. That should be back by Monday (the biopsy, the culture takes like 10 days).
Spencer was very excited to get to the cabin. It was dark by the time we got up here. I’m sure he will have lots of fun going out exploring in the day light tomorrow. 🙂
For those who have been through amputations – question… how long until you let them go out (in a fenced yard) by themselves? Before all of this happened Spencer generally went out in our back yard on his own for standard potty breaks. But since he came home from the biopsy I haven’t let him go out on his own at all. I always go outside with him. He now only goes a few feet away, then looks back to make sure I’m coming too. I was just wondering today how long I should keep always going out with him. I assume at some point I can feel safe letting him out on his own… right?
Oh, and I think that we came up with a name for the cabin. We often call him “Spence”, we are thinking about naming the cabin “3Pence Lodge” (to state the hopefully obvious… combining him being a tripaw and his nick name).