Thursday, September 28, 2006

Piece of Cake

Luna is sure a tough as nails little pug!  She came through the surgery with flying colors.  She came out of the anesthesia early, wasn’t cranky and was simply a total trooper.  Heck, she was barely even tired.  She is totally unfazed by the lovely “E” collar she has to wear for the next week.  She looks like a satellite dish that you would have on the side of your house, but she is still our pretty girl!  Headgear and all!

The vet stitched her upper and lower lids together at the corner of her eye with just one little stitch in order to help her eye heal and not be so bulgy and prone to infections.  That has made it so you can barely see the wound itself.  (Which is sort of nice for those weak in the knees.) 

Benjamin was so sweet, though.  He wanted to hug up to her while she napped.  He checked in on her eye by trying to inspect the inside of her cone collar.  He just gave it a little sniff and then he stood by her awhile as a protective older brother.  He stayed with her until she settled.  He settled next to her for a little while, too.  They made quite the pair. 

Henry used this time to get a little one on one time with mom.  He is such a smarty pants.  He takes advantage of every potential opportunity to get a little extra Henry time.  They are all good little soldiers. 

It will take about 2 weeks for the biopsy to come back, but it already sounds like good news because the vet said that Luna’s eye had responded so well to the million eye drops we have given her over the last week and that cancer wouldn’t respond to any of those medications.  So that sounds like great news.  She’ll still be on all the same medications for at least another week.  They will see how it goes when she goes back for her follow up exam (and to have that one stitch removed). 

It is all so relieving.  She did such a great job.  We will all sleep well tonight!

Thanks to you all for your support and prayers.  It helped to pull us all through!