[Dailydrool] Our own gruesome Halloween weekend

[Heidi I Sarver]

Chalk it up to Della, the sweetest, cuddliest basset who is afraid of  
her own shadow, to turn a relatively calm weekend into our own  
personal Vincent Price special!

Della has a bunch of sebaceous cysts in various parts of her body.   
All are very small, very hard and no change in any of them in  
ages...until about a week ago.  All of a sudden two of them  
quadrupled in size!  So, being the proactive "they think I'm nuts at  
the vet" mommy I immediate called for an appointment to have them  
checked out.  (Cancer with my mother is enough---don't want to go  
through it with a dog at the same time!!)  But Della's little body  
(she's a whopping 45 lbs...full grown too) had other plans.

Saturday night around 10 PM, the one on her side "exploded."  Lots of  
watery blood, regular beet red blood and that nasty white cheesy  
stuff.  After  some time with warm compresses, the wound slowed to a  
mild oozing on and off that night and by morning, all scabbed over.

I figured, ok, but still we go to the vet on Monday because the  
really big one needs checking and this wound needs checking for  
infection.

Sunday night....the big one on her lower back "exploded."  This one  
was worse:  watery blood, regular blood, puss and a pea sized rock  
hard mass made of I don't know what.  More warm compresses and same  
result, all healed over by this morning.

So off we go to the vet later today with nothing to aspirate, but  
want to make sure there is no infection and lots of questions.

Poor pup!!  ...and through it all: the perfect patient and snuggle  
bug.  Boy did she get tons of treats!

Drool to all in need and snooters to everyone.

--heidi, buford, della and guinness the cat.