Pets, Photography

Find the Staple

Find the Missed Staple

Frances had her stitches and staples removed this morning. HALLELUJAH! I brought her home and went straight to work, because I was afraid I wouldn’t find parking if I didn’t hurry.

Which means I didn’t look closely at her belly. I took a photo when I got home and posted it to Facebook. Someone pointed out the missed staple, and thankfully the vet’s office was still open, so no harm done.

The staple was removed, and Franny is now 100% free of all sutures. No more cone. No more pills. No more restriction from getting on the furniture.

Frances is a happy, happy girl.

Cone Free!

Crankypantsing, Genealogy, Pets

Piglet the Genealogist

Piglet the Genealogist

I spent all day working on resolving ONE problem on my error list. Frustrating doesn’t even begin to describe it.

And the reason I was at home playing amateur genealogist, instead of at work where I belonged? Last night the lower section of Franny’s incision started to get a little oozy. I was afraid it had gotten infected or that she was having a reaction to the stitches, so I stayed home today so I could take her to the vet to get checked out. Verdict: seroma. Not an infection, and not a problem with the stitches, so we’re still on track to have everything removed on Thursday morning.

While we were at the vet, Piglet decided to get on my laptop (um, literally) and do a little genealogical research of his own. I came home to find he’d been familiarizing himself with Legacy Family Tree.

Pets, Photography

Six Days Post-op

Six Days Post-op

Her stitches (the lower section) had me worried Sunday night.  They looked red and swollen.  I think I must have been hallucinating, though, because the next morning they looked fine. And today, they look great.

She still has two pockets of fluid, but they’re steadily shrinking. And if you look closely, you can see that the little green tattoo from her spay surgery is still visible between her staples.

The incision from the second surgery has been a lot grosser looking, so I haven’t been posting photos of it. Today, though, it finally looks good enough to share.