Dog update

[hemperz]

On Friday, Kerouac had surgery for his recurred tumor in his hind leg.  He did well initially and bounced back with a lot of energy.  Unfortunately, his wound is not healing well.  Some of the tissue initially stitched together died rather than knitted, and the location of the cross-shaped wound made it easy to tear open with almost any movement.  He started bled a little bit a couple days ago and ultimately went into the vet this morning to have a dressing placed.  When I got home today he had a quarter-sized open area of muscle showing; our attempts to re-dress were to no avail.  Even carrying him out for a pee and back was enough movement to pull off his dressing and make the gash silver-dollar sized.  So off we went to the vet ER, where they put an uber-dressing on him that wraps all the way up around his back.  Looks like we will need to continue getting the dressing changed every 2-3 days (with a trip from belmont to washougal for each of those changes, thank you), and it will be touch and go for a couple weeks. 
So say a prayer, cross your fingers, send him good doggy karma, because he's got a rough patch ahead of him.