Long time and much
has happened since last time we wrote. The biggest thing is that Pancho
was in a surgery last Thursday. Some weeks ago a bump appeared on his
chest. First it looked like a pimple. Then it grew very fast. We took
him to a vet to a skin
and allergy specialist and she said that this is some sort of
tumor/neoplasm (uudismuodostuma in Finnish). I’m just going to call it
“the thing” since we don’t know yet for sure what it was. First she
gave antibiotic-cortisone cream for it. She said that it
might make it disappear or then not. For Pancho it didn’t help. So we
had to take him for operation so that they removed “the thing”.
Panchos "thing" when it wasn't even on biggest state.
I took the whole Thursday and Friday off from work so that I could
be with him. On Thursday I took Pancho and Chili for a long walk before
the surgery and then I took Pancho to the operation. Pauli also came
from work to meet us at the vet. First time
for long time Pancho behaved very well at the vet. He didn’t even
growl. They gave him sedative injection and he fell asleep into my lap
on the floor. Then the nurses came to carry him away. They said that it
might take 2-3 hours before I can come to pick him
up. I went to a shop next to the veterinarian station to buy a magazine
so that I could spend my time in the car better. I didn’t want to go
anywhere far away so that I could go back as soon as they would call
me. I wanted to be there when he wakes up. It was
less than an hour that they called me that the surgery is over and I
can come there.
They took me to a back room of the station. He was there totally
asleep his tongue out from his mouth. He was lying down on an electric
mattress; which had a heating. He had his own blanket on him. He had a
needle on his pawn giving him some fluids. I
was sitting there with him for a long time; I think more than an hour.
I have to give excellent feedback to the staff of that veterinarian
station. One nurse was sitting there with me for a long time and
explained everything about Panchos operation and what
we have to do after that etc. Then she was trying to put collar on him
so that he couldn’t lick the wound. That’s when Pancho woke up for the
first time. He lifted his head and was totally out from this world. He
looked scared and I let him smell my hand and
said that I was there. Then he looked calmer and closed his eyes and
fell asleep again. It looked like he was thinking that “great, there is
someone else guarding so I can sleep”. I think that he heard my voice
even though he was sleeping because I only once
left the room to go and pay for his surgery and when I came back he was
wake and trying to sit. Maybe he heard me leaving and tried to follow
me.
He didn’t wake up totally so I had to carry him to our car. That
nurse was so friendly that she carried all my stuff to the car. I drove
home and made a safe nest for Pancho to sleep. We have a corner sofa so
I put him on a corner and a pillow on the other
side and sat my self on the other side. Two reason: so that he wouldn’t
fall down and Chili. In the beginning it was hard to keep Chili away
since he obviously wanted to smell what is wrong with Pancho. But then
he understood that he wants to sleep now and
let him be. Whole Thursday Pancho was sleeping. Very late in the
evening he was walking a bit and then we went to sleep.
Friday morning he seemed normal. We didn’t want him to wear that
collar that nurse gave us but we agreed with her that we can just make
him wear a t-shirt. That will also stop him from licking that wound and
stop Chili from licking that. He was even a
bit too normal.. We were told that for 10-14 days that he has stitches
he shouldn’t run, climb or jump. It was a full time job to keep them
from not running and jumping all the time… Also hiding his antibiotic
tablet is a challenge.. He seems to smell it and
then he spits it out. We have noticed that if we wrap it to a grilled
chicken skin he will eat it.
When we first took the bandage off from his chest I was a bit
shocked. I didn’t expect that wound to be that big. “The thing” was
only 1-2cm wide and the wound with stitches is about 15cm. Vet asked us
if we want them to send “the thing” to be checked
so that we would know what it was and is it good or bad. She said that
she would recommend us to give the permission since it looked quite
nasty. That got me scared.. If a vet who has done that job for 20 years
says that it looked quite nasty… Well, in 1½-2
weeks we should know the results. There is nothing else we can do
except expect for the worse and hope for the best.
Pancho seems to be doing very well now. He doesn’t take pain
medicine anymore and the wound doesn’t seem to be sore or painful. He
wants to run and play the same way than always and he doesn’t even try
to lick the wound. We can take the stitches away somewhere
between dates 16-20.11 depending how it looks. We will first try to
take them away ourselves and if it doesn’t work out then we will take
him to a vet. That is what the vet recommended. I think Pauli will have
to do that, I might start feeling sick.. I’m a
bit sensitive for that kind of things.. -Jozanna
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