[Dailydrool] clueless momPerson checking in

[Dale Rutz]

Hi all, it's Dale

First off drool to all in need.  I sure hope Molly's toe turns out fine and she 
and her mommy have a nice snuggle and all is well from here on out.

I've never seen a sebaceous cyst before.  Snoopy has a little tiny one on the 
inside of his elbow (at the least the vet says that's what it is) but it's about 
the size of a pencil eraser and been there for years and not changing.  Gracies 
..... WOW.  Out of nowhere sprung this THING about the size of a child's bouncy 
ball (smaller than a golf ball).  At first (being the ever clueless momPerson) I 
was in a PANIC.  The I talked to the president of our rescue.  I described it to 
her and she told me to use warm compresses on it yesterday so I did.  Today it 
has a scab.  She told me if I continue to use warm compresses the scab will come 
off and it will drain and then I should apply betadine (that orange stuff they 
paint you with before they stitch you up) to disinfect it.  I always use 
hydrogen peroxide to clean up breaks in the skin but ok, I'll buy some betadine, 
Gloria's a vet tech, she knows her stuff.  Funny story here ..... a lady wrote 
me off drool to tell me about her dog's bug bite on the tail and cleaning it up 
with hydrogen peroxide so I told her about the betadine and she said "I'm a 
nurse, I should know this, I'll get some."  I felt better.  Now everybody needs 
to go out and get some betadine and add it to the doggy first aid kit.  It's 
cheap folks but it does stain so use it outside.

For those of you on facebook you know my babies are all cuddling and playing and 
acting like littermates and it's healing our hearts.  Some folks say Cyrus sent 
us Gracie.  That made me think.  When I brought her home as a foster I adjusted 
one of Snoopy's collars to fit her.  She wasn't microchipped yet so I needed a 
way to mark her and all I had was a tag with Cyrus name and my cell phone 
number.  Yup, she's wearing a Snoopy's collar and Cyrus tag this whole time.  I 
guess I should buy her one now with her own name on it!!!

My husband has 5 more weeks and he's done with his chemo.  48 weeks.  whew, it's 
been tough.  I'm glad it's almost over but the medicine still makes him so sick, 
especially the shots which he does once a week.  Some weeks are worse than 
others.  He couldn't get out of bed this morning so the dogs were laying on 
him.  The tried kissing, they tried cuddling ... Snoopy tried walking his 72 lbs 
back and forth across him stepping carefully to place those dinner plate paws 
right on sensitive guy spots and nada.  So they decided to charge up and down 
the hall like idiots doing the basset 500.  He's up.  These clowns make him 
smile when nothing else can.

I love bassets.

More later from the clueless momPerson with Snoopy, LuLu and now Gracie too
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