Stitches Out!

Yesterday, the kids and I took Miss Mousie to the Cascade Veterinary Referral Center for what we hoped would be our last trip down there. She was checked by a very nice tech, then taken away to have Dr. Flynn remove her stitches. He then returned with her to talk to us.

Miss Mousie is doing great!

The pathology reports were back. They run tests after the surgery to make sure there was nothing more they needed to worry about. No cancer! Yeah! But she did have an infection deep in the ear canal. The medicine she's still on as well as the TECA procedure will have taken care of that.

But this was an infection separate from the one she had in August. I had no idea. None of us did.

All I could think as I heard this was thank goodness she had the surgery. Poor Miss Mousie must have been hurting so much. So again, a big thank you for all your help, support and donations!

Miss Mousie does seem much happier. She isn't shaking her head or itching at her ears constantly (though she's still in the collar for a couple more days and the stitches/tubes did seem to bug her a bit at first.) She's back to her old routine and running around the house like she always did.

She still prefers to have either her daddy or me in sight. I'm not sure if it's because she can't hear now, but I'm not sure how much she could actually hear before. But we don't mind at all.

She's started sleeping outside her cat bed that we've been using for her since the surger. It made carrying her around and keeping her with us at night easier. She would cry if we left her alone so we just put the cat bed between our heads and she was content to stay there all through the night.

When I was volunteering at the kids school on Monday, she was in the bonus room on the couch with her daddy. Right now she's next to me on the bed.

Her fur is starting to grow back. She was shaved in three different places. But the fur on her head is coming in the color of the Betadine, not white but this sort of rust/orange color. The tech said there wasn't much you could do about it. But Miss Mousie is looking more like herself. As soon as a little more hair grows back, we'll get a picture up! 

The only not good news is Miss Mousie has caught another cold. Nothing serious. It's like the one that postponed her surgery for a couple of weeks. This one is most likely a virus due to stress since she's on antibiotics right now. The surgeon wasn't concerned. Once we finish the antibiotics, I'll contact her local vet if it doesn't clear up.

So that's the news for now! Thanks!