Well, I think we can finally join the club of those who have spent a god awful amount of money at the vet! It's good to know there are other people out there who can share the pain (Jonathan and Anna, Mike and Nicole and Alyssa and Chris). The past three vet visits for the dogs' annual exam, the vet has recommended that Remmy have his teeth cleaned. This past spring we noticed a lump on Remmy's neck. So at their annual visit, the vet checked it out and did a quick biopsy. Fortunately, it was just a sebaceous cyst...nothing to get worked up or worried about. However, with that said, the vet said if it didn't go away or get smaller they could remove it. (Hence the word "could" I wish we would have known it was more of an option, rather than a necessity). She made it sound like it would be a quick and simple procedure though. And once again she recommended Remmy have his teeth cleaned.
So, being the good dog owners that we are, we made the appointment for his teeth to get cleaned and to have his lump removed at the same time since he had to be put under anyway. We got a quote for the teeth cleaning (which quotes are never accurate....you get nickeled and dimed every way you can and they never include all of the optional costs in the quote anyway...like the $70 blood draw to make sure your dog is healthy enough to go under anesthesia....the "optional costs" that if you love and care for your dog you'll do without thinking twice....aren't really optional). I also made the mistake of not getting a quote on the removal of the lump. But to give myself credit the vet did make it sound like it would be a little incision to suck out the juice and then he'd be done with. It would be an easy operation since he was already under.
We are now $600 in, two vet visits in the past 3 days, antibiotics, rimadly, cortizone cream and Remmy has an 1 1/2 inch incision on his neck, a 4x4 inch square shaved on the top of his neck, wiry stitches and a 2x3 rectangular patch shaved on his leg where his IV went. He is taking 3 1/2 pills a day for inflammation and to nip the infection. And while he seems pretty normal, we have to keep him and Rio from playing to avoid breaking open the incision. He also shouldn't roll, scratch or shake....but he is a dog and does all three of those on a daily basis. His collar gets in the way and his shaved skin is irritating so we're applying cortizone cream. Aside from all of those details, Remmy's doing well and has very clean, white teeth, but needs supervision to keep him from scratching open the incision and licking his leg raw (needless to say the house is clean, the lawn is cut, all of the laundry is done and I'm all caught up on my blog, AND I am beginning to go stir crazy). Supplying we don't have to go to the vet for any more unforeseen reasons, we will go back in a couple of weeks to get the stitches removed.
I will keep you posted!
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