Last Wednesday, Lilly went to see Dr. Barkdoll due to a recurring lump on her side. It appeared during mosquito season, along with dozens of other lumps thanks to our unusually heavy infestation of the little bloodsuckers this year. It went away as an insect bite is wont to do. Then, out of the blue, it was back but bigger. This was the warning, a sign that this one pea sized lump could be a mast cell tumor, a form of cancer common in boxers. When she stopped jumping on him and licking him, Dr. Barkdoll was able to examine it and we decided that it needed to come out.
Friday morning she went in and was home Friday late afternoon with a six inch incision with staples over her passenger side shoulder. Among my instructions was 'keep her quite and calm'. Right, my whirling dervish has to be calm. Late Friday afternoon I made my first panicked call as she kept scratching every time she fell asleep. When the doctor called that evening to see how she was doing, we decided that I couldn't spend the next week awake when she slept to grab her feet. Saturday Morning she met Dr. Barkdoll at the office to have a hobble put on her hind foot to prevent her from opening her wound. That proved futile and the doctor made her a dressing that looked like a designer jacket made of tape and ace compression bandaging. It is quite the fashion statement and has done a perfect job. It comes off Wednesday and staples out Saturday if all goes per plan.
Lilly has one from abjectly miserable, to very unhappy boxer to an utter pain in the neck. Her main goal is to go outside and roll in the grass, her secondary goal is to run like a fool; my goal is to prevent her from doing what she wants. To keep her quiet, I sat in the chair with her and a lap top and let her pick a treat for herself and I picked some yums for me all from Bonanzle shops. She loves the gift basket of biscuits because it's something different every day. The cookies are all home made and baked fresh to order. I even think they smell great when I open a package so I can only imagine how wonderful they smell to her. They were the first thing she ate after her surgery. Thanks Shasta for making such a wonderful product!
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