Scaring Momma

Last week Tuesday my dearest cookie scared me yet once again. We woke up as usual, we took her out of her little makeshift confined bed to get her ready for her medicine. As you might recall here, I have reason to believe cookie might be a little escape artist in training. Juju picks her up to find that she has made her way out of her little net shirt. She's completely naked, her drain is hanging by her side and the fentanyl patch is complete exposed. I thought, ok, just put her shirt back on, no harm, no foul.... right?

We notice that cookie's face, neck and her shoulder blade is wet. We immediately thought she had pulled on her drain and it basically emptied out on her since we noticed there wasn't much fluid in the actual pump. So i grab a washcloth and clean her up as juju gets her back into her little net shirt. Im getting ready to give her her medications when i touch her neck and notice that its still wet. So i clean her up again, really just thinking i missed a spot and go back to her medicine. I pick her up and at this point i felt a watery substance roll onto my hand. I take a closer look at her face and i notice that under her jaw line, she is draining from the side of her face. You couldn't quite see a hole or a puncture, all you could see was a blood like fluid coming out. I put a towel over the area and it was soaked within minutes.

I started to panic, cookie had a hole on the side of her neck! Coincidentally enough, cookie was scheduled to have her drain pump removed that day, so i was taking the afternoon off to get that done. Since the draining wasn't stopping we decided it was best for me to take her in to see the Dr. in the morning instead of waiting until the afternoon.

The Dr. examined her and found that it was a bite wound that hadn't penetrated the skin. She said it most likely happened while cookie shook her head no, while trying to give her her medicine or simply shaking in her cone. So they had to drug her up once again, and partially sedate her because the Dr. was going to have to make a large incision where the bite mark was to clear out any bacteria and administer meds.

2.5 hours later cookie came out of her procedure. She was totally zoned out. At one point instead of resting her chin on the table, like she usually does, she had her nose directly on the table. I mean directly on it... making a "T" (as if she was smelling the table) with nothing but her head and the table. She looked quite pitiful because she was wear this knit sock like stocking on her head. She had an exposed incision of a little more than an inch in length, so we had to keep gauze on it to absorb the natural drainage.

That's the knit stocking on her head. The doctor cut out holes for her ears. As the time progressed the knit was becoming looser and looser ( It was all cotton, no lycra) But since she kept trying to shake it off i had to reinforce it, hence the drawstring bow. In the picture you can see her shaved neck, arm and 3x4 patch. Poor thing!