Thanks guys. I think I mentioned that I took pictures and a video of the dripping last night. My mom sent them to the vet this morning, and he was a little concerned, but said we could wait until tomorrow to bring her in. Well we didn't want to do that, so while I was in class, my mom took her into the vet. Whenever he pulled off her bandage, she started leaking and my mom said it was even worse than before.
He told us he was going to sedate her, remove her staples, and flush the incision and she could come home tonight. Well stupid me, I forgot my cell phone today so I was communicating to my mom through e-mail. She e-mailed me around 5 to tell me that once I was able to leave campus I could go visit Nova but she'd be staying overnight. So I get there and the girl in the front (who has an attitude issue!) tells me that Nova is still in surgery and wouldn't really answer any of my questions. At least the doctor calls us after he finishes the surgery, tells us she had been in surgery the whole time (at least three hours

) and that he had to open her back up and do much more than he thought. He cut back through the stomach, flushed her stomach out, re-stapled everything, etc. The only thing he said that looked like it was on the right path was her intestine and so he just checked to make sure it had sealed up and left it.
She did indeed have an infection. She's staying overnight (again - starting to become a regular there!). Sooo, hopefully this time she'll heal up okay. If she is keeping food down tomorrow she can come home in the afternoon.
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