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Carpathius 10 May 6:37pm, 10 May 2024 23,025 posts	0 Carpathius Rae. He's beautiful.
Raemondo 11 May 11:16am, 11 May 2024 11,768 posts	0 Raemondo 😁 he is, isn't he? He's my perfect beautiful boy. The brindled idiot is also quite pretty, but she's in the dog house for eating a load of lawn fertilizer and being sick all over the patio and in front of the shed door 😡 Luckily it was organic stuff without any realty nasty ingredients, and all seems to have bounced straight out. She was able to keep breakfast (and, more importantly, her anti seizure medication) down OK. Now we just have a patio that smells of dog vomit, even after a good hosing down.
SarahWoo 11 May 3:34pm, 11 May 2024 20,292 posts	0 SarahWoo Bit worried about Maisy’s ear. The wound has opened up in the middle of the line of stitches. Took her back to the vet who said that it’s because they had to take such a wide area of skin out, the stitches can’t hold the skin together. Will therefore have to leave it open. We have to wash it out with saline and an antiseptic then fill the home with antibiotic cream twice a day. Will obviously take longer to heal and looks awful. I’m flying back to the UK for a week on Monday so Mr Woo will be looking after it on his own. Whilst he is perfectly capable, I’m still going to be worrying a lot. Maisy seems completely unphased and is obviously not in pain.
Alice the Camel 11 May 4:49pm, 11 May 2024 17,149 posts	0 Alice the Camel Ouch! And Yuck! I’m not good with medical stuff and I’m not sure I’d be able to handle an open wound. Poor pup, sounds awful xx
LazyDaisy 11 May 6:39pm, 11 May 2024 40,098 posts	0 LazyDaisy I'm sorry to hear about Maisy's wound but I'm sure it will be fine. Why do I say this? Because I had something similar with my C section scar (prompting the midwife to say, when I went in to have baby no 2, 'Who on earth did this??' ) and it was fine. Doesn't stop you worrying though xx
SarahWoo 11 May 7:33pm, 11 May 2024 20,295 posts	0 SarahWoo Thanks for that, LD - it helps x
RooA 11 May 7:44pm, 11 May 2024 2,789 posts	0 RooA Personally I'd aim to keep the wound bed moist and disturb it as little as possible, so would skip the saline rinse and just keep it well topped up with a wound gel or silver spray. Obviously the vet has seen the actual wound though so probably knows best, just speaking from experience of healing open wounds (including open stitched wounds) on the mad thoroughbred. With an open wound cells have to kind of migrate across to start the healing process and once in place are very delicate and easily disturbed so washing out can be counterproductive unless there is actual active infection present. She will be fine, SarahWoo! Wounds always look so much worse as they are healing than they actually are. I definitely found they look worse before they get better as well!
SarahWoo 12 May 8:18am, 12 May 2024 20,296 posts	0 SarahWoo Thanks, Roo. That helps too x
halfpint 12 May 8:30am, 12 May 2024 41,182 posts	0 halfpint Ernie enjoyed a day in the hills yesterday.
Raemondo 12 May 8:38am, 12 May 2024 11,776 posts	0 Raemondo I have hill envy. Hope Maisy continues to be unbothered by the ear thing, SW. It's so often the case that they have no idea of the stress they're putting us through, but I guess that's for the best really.