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Back to the vet
Mar. 31st, 2009 04:38 pmLast week I noticed a hard tight lump on Racky's front leg. It was showing no sign of going away so this afternoon we went into the vet to get a professional opinion.
The vet didn't think it was an abscess and didn't want to poke it too hard but thought it needed to come off, although that's tricky in that area because there's not a lot of spare skin to sew back together over the wound. She also found another lump, softer, on his back leg (also tricky).
So Racky will be going back in for surgery on Thursday. They may decide to only take a needle sample of the back leg in the first instance, but the front lump will be removed. The vet will clean his teeth up a bit while he is under, so that will save me an expense at his annual checkup, but still looking in the realm of $500 by the time the lumps are tested.
And of course Wednesday will be a hungry cat night.
Weight: 5.75kg - still dropping slowly.
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I'm coming down with some sort of lurge myself and didn't sleep well last night at all.
The vet didn't think it was an abscess and didn't want to poke it too hard but thought it needed to come off, although that's tricky in that area because there's not a lot of spare skin to sew back together over the wound. She also found another lump, softer, on his back leg (also tricky).
So Racky will be going back in for surgery on Thursday. They may decide to only take a needle sample of the back leg in the first instance, but the front lump will be removed. The vet will clean his teeth up a bit while he is under, so that will save me an expense at his annual checkup, but still looking in the realm of $500 by the time the lumps are tested.
And of course Wednesday will be a hungry cat night.
Weight: 5.75kg - still dropping slowly.
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I'm coming down with some sort of lurge myself and didn't sleep well last night at all.
