Jamie & Jupiter
Member Since 2013
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I posted a quick update about his vet appt yesterday but wanted to explain all the details. Also I have some coupons that I am willing to send anyone who could use some, I already have some envelopes and stamps please read the message below if you are interested.
Jupiters weekly wound checkup appt is every Tuesday. So the vet took a look at his foot yesterday and measured it and it is the same size as last week. Unfortunately we did not make any progress this week. Last Tuesday the vet bandaged his foot there, so I forgot to apply the yuk gel to the bandage. This has really been working so well for us recently. I normally apply the yuk gel right after bandage change and as long as I apply a whole whole bunch of it he leaves it alone and I dont have to reapply – but since I didn’t do the bandage change it slipped my mind. So when I woke up Wednesday morning the bandage was off and the wound looked much much wider then it had the day before. So we lost a lot of progress and this week was pretty much spent just gaining that progress back instead of making more progress.
I am really hoping the wound will heal more this week. If the wound does not make any progress over this week, the vet said he will need to sedate Jupiter again and remove any bad tissue that is not healing. I really hope we don’t have to do this because I feel like this will really set us back a few weeks again.
The vet trimmed the hair around the outside edges of the wound because the hair was starting to grow into the wound and he said it should be trimmed so that the hair doesn’t cause any delay in the healing process.
He said the wound is not quite small enough for it to be stitched closed. I asked if he would stitch it closed if next week it was a little smaller. He said that if it shows a lot of progress over the next week like it has in previous weeks that he would not want to stitch it closed at that point because he doesn’t want it to split back open later on and he thinks it would be better to keep treating it as an open wound.
Jupiter also has several pretty bad sores on his leg from the tape. We will no longer be able to use the ‘sticky’ tape which was really helping to keep the bandage on. We will also need to apply an ointment to the sores twice a day and that’s going to cause the tape not to stick very well. So with the tape that’s not very sticky combined with the ointment on his sores… the tape comes loose very quickly and if Jupiter shakes his leg the bandage will come off. I am really worried that once again we are going to have a hard time keeping the bandage on.
My other concern is that the vet applied Dermalone ointment on the sores. The Dermalone ointment has steroids in it and Jupiter has licked some of the Dermalone off of his leg. I am really worried about this possibly raising his BG? Any thoughts on this?
His appy is still pretty poor but it is improving and we will continue to give probiotics for a few more days – they seem to be helping.
COUPONS
Also, I have a bunch of extra coupons for the following things if anybody could use any of these coupons, please send me a message with your address and which you need so I can mail them out.
$1 off any 24 cans of Fancy Feast any variety expires 11/4/13
$1 off any tidy cats cat litter 14lbs or more any variety expires 10/28/13
$1 off any 4 Fancy Feast appetizers expires 10/28/13
Thank you all for the visits and support you guys have given us, and continue to give us. You are all so amazing!
Hope you all have a great day!
I posted a quick update about his vet appt yesterday but wanted to explain all the details. Also I have some coupons that I am willing to send anyone who could use some, I already have some envelopes and stamps please read the message below if you are interested.
Jupiters weekly wound checkup appt is every Tuesday. So the vet took a look at his foot yesterday and measured it and it is the same size as last week. Unfortunately we did not make any progress this week. Last Tuesday the vet bandaged his foot there, so I forgot to apply the yuk gel to the bandage. This has really been working so well for us recently. I normally apply the yuk gel right after bandage change and as long as I apply a whole whole bunch of it he leaves it alone and I dont have to reapply – but since I didn’t do the bandage change it slipped my mind. So when I woke up Wednesday morning the bandage was off and the wound looked much much wider then it had the day before. So we lost a lot of progress and this week was pretty much spent just gaining that progress back instead of making more progress.
I am really hoping the wound will heal more this week. If the wound does not make any progress over this week, the vet said he will need to sedate Jupiter again and remove any bad tissue that is not healing. I really hope we don’t have to do this because I feel like this will really set us back a few weeks again.
The vet trimmed the hair around the outside edges of the wound because the hair was starting to grow into the wound and he said it should be trimmed so that the hair doesn’t cause any delay in the healing process.
He said the wound is not quite small enough for it to be stitched closed. I asked if he would stitch it closed if next week it was a little smaller. He said that if it shows a lot of progress over the next week like it has in previous weeks that he would not want to stitch it closed at that point because he doesn’t want it to split back open later on and he thinks it would be better to keep treating it as an open wound.
Jupiter also has several pretty bad sores on his leg from the tape. We will no longer be able to use the ‘sticky’ tape which was really helping to keep the bandage on. We will also need to apply an ointment to the sores twice a day and that’s going to cause the tape not to stick very well. So with the tape that’s not very sticky combined with the ointment on his sores… the tape comes loose very quickly and if Jupiter shakes his leg the bandage will come off. I am really worried that once again we are going to have a hard time keeping the bandage on.
My other concern is that the vet applied Dermalone ointment on the sores. The Dermalone ointment has steroids in it and Jupiter has licked some of the Dermalone off of his leg. I am really worried about this possibly raising his BG? Any thoughts on this?
His appy is still pretty poor but it is improving and we will continue to give probiotics for a few more days – they seem to be helping.
COUPONS
Also, I have a bunch of extra coupons for the following things if anybody could use any of these coupons, please send me a message with your address and which you need so I can mail them out.
$1 off any 24 cans of Fancy Feast any variety expires 11/4/13
$1 off any tidy cats cat litter 14lbs or more any variety expires 10/28/13
$1 off any 4 Fancy Feast appetizers expires 10/28/13
Thank you all for the visits and support you guys have given us, and continue to give us. You are all so amazing!
Hope you all have a great day!
now if Jupiter would just
