Abby gave us quite a scare after we arrived in Turkey. We discovered an egg-sized lump on her side. We took her to the base vet and he wanted to take it right out, whatever it was. He took her in the very next day. He opened her belly, expecting it to be in her intestines, but he found nothing. So he opened up her side right over the lump. It was a fatty tumor between her skin and muscles. He took it out and stitched her back up (twice.) He put the tumor in a jar of formaldehyde and really grossed Sydney out with it later.
Abby came home all shaved and covered in stitches, she also had a tube in her side for drainage(yuck.) She had pain meds and antibiotics which she really loved taking and always sat still to do so. She was in a lot of pain for two days, she couldn't even jump up on the bed. But after that she seemed fine. She got her stitches out ten days later and is doing great. We still don't know what caused the tumor, she didn't have it in the States, she was checked right before we flew out.
We were really blessed that we were here, had such a great vet and that she is going to be OK.
This is a picture of her the day of the surgery.
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