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ratcreature) wrote2013-02-02 09:23 am
ratcreature) wrote2013-02-02 09:23 am
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I am so ill equipped for these decisisions
So the good news is that Oskar did not pull any further staples over night, so the wound doesn't gape open further than on the maybe five millimeters it was yesterday evening, and there is no pus either, but now I'm left wondering whether that is enough of a wound disturbance that it qualifies for an emergency situation that is supposed to make me come back in before Monday.
The vet was very clear that I ought to come if there was any visible infection at all, but the instruction about the level of wound disturbance were less clear cut. Aargh. Well, maybe I'll phone ahead and ask. Since today they are open two hours, I could phone at the start of the opening hours and still be there within the second hour, if they do say that I ought to come in. *dithers*
ETA: It seems they don't cover the phone during the emergency opening hours. I decided to not bring him in today. To redo that bit of the stitches they'd have to anesthetize him again, and create fresh wound boundaries again (same as the problem yesterday, when they had to make the wound larger and fresh for healing with stitches to work), and I doubt they'd do that for this small opening in the wound, when it is still mostly closed. And Oskar doesn't seem to have disturbed the wound worse over night or now aside from that initial staple he loosened, and there is no sign of infection so far.
The vet was very clear that I ought to come if there was any visible infection at all, but the instruction about the level of wound disturbance were less clear cut. Aargh. Well, maybe I'll phone ahead and ask. Since today they are open two hours, I could phone at the start of the opening hours and still be there within the second hour, if they do say that I ought to come in. *dithers*
ETA: It seems they don't cover the phone during the emergency opening hours. I decided to not bring him in today. To redo that bit of the stitches they'd have to anesthetize him again, and create fresh wound boundaries again (same as the problem yesterday, when they had to make the wound larger and fresh for healing with stitches to work), and I doubt they'd do that for this small opening in the wound, when it is still mostly closed. And Oskar doesn't seem to have disturbed the wound worse over night or now aside from that initial staple he loosened, and there is no sign of infection so far.