First, we went to visit Bella at the vet for a bit today, and boy what a difference a day makes! She seems to be in much better spirits, I even got my toes licked, so the old Bella might just be in there after all! Although her personality might be better, her wounds are turning out to be much worse. When they went in for the surgery originally, they planned on going in on the left side only, on the worst wound. She literally has holes where the other dog’s teeth went in, and one was visibly worse than the others. It was constantly seeping and bleeding (a blast to clean let me tell you), so they were going to go in and literally scrape out anything that could be now, or could become later, infected. Turns out the “pocket”, as they call it, was much larger than they thought it would be, so the incision is probably about 3½ inches long. And on the hip of a little gal like her, that’s pretty big! They then realized a mark the other side, which we originally thought wouldn’t be too big of a problem, had developed a pocket of its own. So they went in, and she has another incision about half the size on that side as well. Both have draining tubes, so the vet thought it would be best for her to stay overnight again tonight to keep her comfortable and let them watch for any new issues. Fingers crossed that this will be the last surprise and the road to recovery can finally begin! The next step is to get her well enough to come home finally, it's just too quiet around here without her!
After our visit we had to run home and get ready for our engagement photo shoot! Even though with everything going on we had thought about postponing, it was nice to have something fun to look forward to. I managed to drive Brian crazy nuts stressing over what we were wearing, but the big issue turned out to be the weather! We spent the last few weeks hoping for no rain, but it just never occurred to me that we should have been worried about temperatures of 100+ degrees! We made it through, even though I seriously felt like I was going to pass out for the heat for a moment, all we can do now is hope they come out looking good, and we don’t look like big grease balls!
Thank you again for everyone’s love and support! And a HUGE thank you to Rachel’s mom and dad, Mr. & Mrs. Erwin, for the care package for Bella! I’m sure she will be super excited to play with the new toys as soon as she gets home and feeling better!
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