From The Past: August 15, 2007

Guido had a skin tumor that grew larger and seeped. Since he sleeps with us, we were seeing small amounts of blood here and there on the pillowcases from the tumor. Gross, but true.

Today was the big day to have the tumor removed.

At Boonesboro Animal Clinic, Mary English is the Pug expert. She’s friendly and very caring. I asked her if she still wanted to remove the tumor or simply lance it. She looked at it and said it was infected. She said we could leave it and it may go away on its own in three months or we could go ahead and remove it. I decided to let her remove it since it was already infected.

She told me it would only take about 10 minutes and she picked him up and left the room.

I actually think it was less than 10 minutes later and Guido was back with a purple bandage wrapped around his leg. She said he did great. She gave him an antibiotic injection for the infection. He has two stitches that need to come out in ten days. They are sending the tumor off to a place in Cincinnati to have it checked for skin cancer. She doesn’t believe it is skin cancer, but I want to make sure.

Here he is in the car right after his “surgery”:

Now that we are home, he will not lay down with that bandage on his arm. It’s like he can’t get comfortable. It reminds me of how the cat acts when you put a wet washcloth on his back. He sinks down to the floor and acts like he’s been paralyzed.

For all of you inquiring minds, Guido has not peed on Dumpledore. Here is the reason why:

Ha! Ha!