[Dailydrool] ear hematoma

[Cheryl Stafford]

Not all surgery on ear hematomas end up with disfigured ears.  I guess 
maybe it depends on who's doing the surgery like anything else.  Otter 
had a hematoma in one of the worst places ever, at the top of his ear 
closing off his ear opening.  We tried having it drained but by the next 
day it was full again.  We had the surgery, one of the toughest 
according to our doctor that she had ever done.  He was a mess with 
stitches and a drain tube but when all healed you can't even tell he had 
it done.  She did a wonderful job with his ear.  The only sign of the 
surgery is when I need to clean his ear I have to lift the ear flap a 
little higher so that the ear canal can open wider.
I was afraid to have the surgery on him which is why we went the 
draining route.  I looked at all the pictures on line and didn't want 
Otter's beautifully long velvet ears to end up like the ones I saw.  
Thankfully they didn't.  So, the long and the short of it is it doesn't 
always turn out bad.
Good luck
Cheryl
Otter, Radar and Mollie the Bloodhound