[Oagdu] {Spam?} Gipp popped open his stitches

[Deanna Lewis]

Lori,
Sorry to hear that this happened. Wishing Gipp good luck today with his procedure. Hang in there, things will improve.
Deanna

From: OAGDU [mailto:oagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lori Dent via OAGDU
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 8:15 PM
To: Ohio Guide Dogs
Cc: Lori Dent
Subject: [Oagdu] {Spam?} Gipp popped open his stitches

Hi all,

Well the subject says it all. Gipp’s been wearing the cone of shame on his head since Monday June 13th when he had his eye surgery to remove the 2 sists off of his eye. It doesn’t come off he wears the cone 24/7 and he was supposed to go back next Monday June 27th to hopefully have the stitches removed. But that has changed and I’ll explain why here in a minute.

When I have to take Gipp out to park, I take him out on leash so that he can’t rub up against the fence. So when I take him out to park he will drop his head and rub his left side of his face into the ground as hard as he can because I’m assuming his eye is itchy and when he does this I get after him right away and stop him from doing this. He’s doing this with the cone on. It’s so hard to try to keep him from rubbing his left side of his face and eye on the ground. Rick and I are always getting after him for doing this and stopping him from doing it and because of Gipp rubbing his side of his face and eye into the ground he will make it bleed a little. Rick is always checking his eye for any discharge that he has and whiping his eye off and he thinks that Gipp might have popped a stitch this past Friday andover this past weekend. I called the vet’s office on Friday  afternoon and left a message with them to call me on Saturday. Rick didn’t notice the popped stitch until after the vet was closed for the evening on  this past Friday. Well the vet’s office called me Saturday late morning and wanted to know if we wanted to bring him in on this past Saturday but we couldn’t that day because we were doing a Lions event with our Lions food trailer and Rick is the one who transports our Lions food trailer back and fourth to and from events. So we scheduled Gipp to come in and see the doc on Monday today at 2:30 PM to have doc look at his eye.

Well the vet assistant took Gipp into the back room and it only took doc a minute or so to look at Gipp’s eye and Gipp did in fact popped his stitches both on top and on the bottum. So doc wants us to bring Gipp in tomorrow morning at 9 AM and drop him off so doc can put him back under and restitch the top and bottum of his eye for the second time. So this means Gipp will have to wear the cone of shame even longer now. I know I’m doing everything the doc wants me to do with Gipp but Gipp isn’t making it easy for me and for himself. I know Gipp don’t understand why he can’t rub his left side of his face and eye on anything because I know it itches him but I was hopeing to advoid having to go back a second time and have doc restitch his eye. So need less to say I’m not very happy right now and Gipp sure won’t be a very happy boy when he comes home tomorrow from restitching his eye up.

I’ll update you all sometime tomorrow after I bring Gipp back home with me.  I’m really frustrated and upset that Gipp did this and I know I’m doing everything I can to try to prevent Gipp from rubbing his left side of his face on the ground, fence, or anything else that he might be able to rub the side of the cone and his face and eye on. I’ll keep everyone posted. Take care.

Lori and the Gipper



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