Fell asleep really early last night so I’m late to the party. Holycow—Lynn-Dah has stitches? What happened? (I am very far behind in reading :()
Good morning Silentgypsy...you are not alone. Miss one day or don't get to every post and it's like being in the dark.
Lynn-dah got a glob of something growing on her forehead, right between the eyes. Since both my Mom and her brother battled skin cancer all their lives, I recognized it as something that needed attention.
My Vet was having a “dental special” last month, so I said “While she’s under the anesthesia, can you snip that thingy off and biopsy it?”
It turned out to be much deeper than it appeared , and in order to have “clean surgical margins”, they had to take quite a bit and have two layers of stitches.
It cost big bucks, and of course, she won’t be getting plastic surgery for the scar. (Mommy can’t even afford THAT for herself!)
So until Lynn-Dah’s Chow-Chow heritage takes over and grows back her luxuriant fur, she will look like Charles Manson for a while. (sigh!)
My Uncle Bill served on a PT Boat in the South Pacific, and the boys often went shirtless in the tropical South Pacific Sunshine. He battled these things all his life, but lived to be 90!
So Lynn-Dah has many years ahead of her, but it is still very nerve-wracking waiting fort the biopsy.