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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>I love bassets.</DIV>
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<DIV>More later from the clueless momPerson with Snoopy, LuLu and now Gracie too</DIV></div></body></html>