Vet Found

We were beside ourselves with worrying about where our veterinarian had gone to, but through a few investigative tricks we were able to find out where she lived and leave a note on her door. She promptly called us and told us she was working out of a vet. clinic pretty far away from us, but at least she is working someplace~ We were thrilled and immediately called their clinic to make an appointment. The hour we have to be there will be early, but at least we have her to go to.  I have no idea what prompted her to leave but according to a vet. tech. it was long in coming. I experienced some tension at the clinic before, but it was shrugged off as just office staff who weren't happy. But to leave a practice and just not come back after the holidays, that probably wasn't over something minor.  I don't really care to know the circumstances and I doubt she will share them with us,  but we hope that she finds a place to practice her wonderful skills so we can continue to have her as Mack's veterinarian.

He has about five stitches or less to come out and no matter what I tried, there was no way I could get the last of them out. He turned his head so violently that I feared I'd poke him with the sharp scissors I was using.  He stopped being patient while I tried to see where they were and how many were left after the second attempt. It has been a frustrating last few days because all I wanted was to remove them and get this part over and done with and he would not cooperate. We decided not to prolong it any longer. It probably means another sedation and we hope she can quickly snip them out and he's done and waking up. It just bothers me that he will have to get the drugs out of his system again.

I will give it another try tonight to see how far I get. If I can get him to let me look at the stitches and slowly introduce the tweezers, which seem to be the worst reaction that we get when I come at him with something in my hands, maybe he will just relax and let me get close enough to snip the ends... He sleeps so soundly that I probably could do it then, but as soon as you touch that area, he wakes up and jerks away.  He shouldn't be feeling anything around there since he lost the nerves running through to his jaw, but he can feel me touching his nose and the side with the stitches, so this area must not have been served by the same nerves that were removed. It is a mystery how he can sense I'm trying to do this without my really doing it!

He's always been easy to work with but in this case, not so much. And his sister is the worst! Forget about wanting to do much with her, she wants nothing to do with anything that involves looking at her teeth, her eye, her head, her tail, she is not having any of it! I pray she doesn't have anything where we have to examine her~we'll be having to sedate her every time.

So on Sat. morning we will drive to the new location of our vet. and hope that we can do this without the use of drugs and that she is successful at removing all the stitches. That would be great and we would be relieved to not have to resort to any drugs this time.