Hello to everyone and thank you for all the good wishes and love that I have "felt" today regarding Murphy's surgery. She is home!!! Poor thing looks like a little peasant woman with her head all bandaged up. I'll have Helen or Scott take her picture later. She will be bandaged for one week and then go back for him to check her and change the bandage. I was able to talk with Dr. Robinson when I went to pick her up. He looked at me very seriously and said that it would have been very easy for any vet to cut out that visible tumor (which he threw away, by the way, because once he saw the other ones, he said this one was "nothing"), but what he found as a result of resectioning the ear canal shocked him. He said she had tumors all through her canal, all the way down to where it becomes horizontal, the two worst ones, totally blocking the ear canal. He said that there is no way that we could ever have effectively treated an ear infection because the canal was completely blocked. Both of those have been sent off to be evaluated. I wish I could show you in person what he drew for me. Basically, he drew a diagram of the dog's ear canal, almost like an inverted "L", but turned the other direction. This may sound gross, but he basically "peeled" it open, but cutting down the side of the vertical part. That's when he found the other tumors and the horrible infection. In all honesty, he said he doesn't know what to think about the biopsy and how it will turn out, but he said that regardless of the outcome, she will be far more comfortable. He said there was no way that he would not have had the infection cultured either, which is fine by me. I just want what is best for this girl. What I didn't ask him, and will ask, when I get the results of the biopsies and culture from him on Friday, is whether there is a chance that the same thing could be happening in the left ear. I just don't know. She is visibly uncomfortable now, but we have pain medication to keep her calm and comfortable, and he said if it doesn't seem to be enough then to call him and he will write out a prescription for her. I have NEVER seen him as concerned and worried as I did today. I can only thank God that we decided to have him look at her to start with. He is a blessing to Scott and me and to Murphy!
I apologize for getting graphic about the procedure, but I wanted to try and help you understand exactly what he did. And thank goodness he did that!!!
I'll keep you posted on how she is doing. I think we will have a rough couple of days, but we will watch her closely and get her feeling better soon.
Thank you again for all the love, prayer and good thoughts.
Logan
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