Simon status report

[altivo]

Thanks to those who expressed good wishes for Simon's surgery. He apparently came through the operation fine and will be coming home this afternoon. The lump was just under the skin, but quite large, about the size of two eggs. Vet confirms it was a tumor and he is sending it for analysis in case it should be malignant. But he is confident he got it all and it was well-contained, so there should be no problem. Other than keeping Simon from rough-housing and messing up his stitches for a few days, that is. We are going to make him wear a t-shirt, which probably will not be popular with him. Thank goodness the weather is still cool.

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[typographer.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think he'll be fine.

[kamodragon.livejournal.com]

Awesome, glad everything went as it was supposed to :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

He should be home in another hour, I'll hear more then.

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

Good
It'll be a little tender for a while

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I imagine so. But that isn't going to stop his exuberant behavior I'm afraid.

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

This is great news!

'Course you know you gotta spoil 'im rotten. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh, he already *is* spoiled. Actually, Simon is a very undemanding dog, with only a couple of exceptions. When he decides it is time for you to get out of bed, you can't win until you cooperate. And when any visitor arrives, even just the letter carrier or UPS, he is very upset if he is not allowed to greet them. Greeting consists of a lot of bouncing up and down until they pet him.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear he's okay :) Hmmm the tricky part will be to keep him from messing up his stitches as you say. Is he sulking?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

He's not home yet, will be in another hour. And I won't be home for another five hours. But sulking isn't in his nature. If he feels really tired or bothered he either lies on my bed or goes in his crate and sleeps. When he's awake, though, he is forever cheerful. It seems to be built into the breed (bearded collie.)

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it!
You ought to post a picture of him with the T-shirt, I'll bet its cute ^^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that. I'll see what I can do.

[doc-moreau.livejournal.com]

Holy crap... K-9 mood icon! ...is there like a set of those? :D

And, i as well am glad it went well. Relief of suspense = resumed breathing for concerned family.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

There is a set of images. You can find them here:

http://www.tetrap.com/lj/

But there is no publicly shareable mood icon theme, so you have to set it up yourself. Not difficult but tedious, and may require a paid account, I'm not sure. I'd really like a set of horsey mood icons. But so far, no one has come up with one.

Simon is doing very well. The hard part is he's not allowed to have any food or water until tomorrow morning. Only ice cubes. And he's not allowed to jump up on the sofa or bed for fear he'll tear the sutures. He wants to do all those things, of course. Seems quite his normal self except that he's wearing a Bike-a-thon t-shirt. He'll have to be confined in his crate when I'm not watching him to keep him from overextending. And he has to take these huge pills twice a day for two weeks. Hopefully they can be buried in peanut butter or something.