We are back at home and Murphy is heavily sedated (he gave her a shot). She is rebandaged and snoozing outside my office door. The drainage I was seeing was indeed an infection, which he cleaned real well. She has pulled about 3 stitches loose. But he said is she was going to pull any stitches loose, these were the best ones. Parts of the incision look very good, so that's promising. The main thing is to keep her bandaged and keep her quiet, so he told me that starting tonight that I could increase the medication if necessary (said she won't need anything before then).

We are leaving to go out of town on Friday and won't be back until Wednesday night. Dr. Robinson and I decided that the best thing to do for her is to let her stay with him while I'm away. People are in and out of there all weekend long and his plan is to keep her sedated and take the bandage off so the incision can get air. And if necessary, he can restitch her next week. I hope it won't be necessary.

No results yet from the tumor or the culture. The lab is in NY, and now they are telling him it might be Friday or later before they can get results due to the weather issues. The worst news, I guess is that he took a good look in her left ear this morning at my request, since before we were only concentrating on the right ear which had the visible tumor and the infection. He went very deep into her ear canal and there are tumors down in the left ear too. He said we will first find out what we are dealing with, then we can make the decision whether we should perform the same operation on the left ear as well. I'm worried, obviously, and a bit sad that our girl is so uncomfortable, but I know she is getting the best care possible. That's all we can do.

I'll keep you posted. And help me with those continued prayers, please.

Logan