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TO EAR IS HUMAN AND CANINE

Five days after we took out Booker's stitches the same ear got the same hematoma again.

I will not drag you through the upset of the operation, the bandages, the fucking cone.

We went to see the Doc on Friday. It was OK. If I had written a script for her on how to play this meeting she did it letter perfect.

And, we were very disappointed.

We had arrived with the decision that we were not going to go through all that shit again. If we did anything we would have her drain the ear and hope for the best.

All through this we have been in touch with Booker's Aunt Rusty who has handled more Airedales than we would even guess she has. Hundreds?

The hematoma is common enough that she has drained some of them herself. She has seen a few quilt stitch deals like Bookers and thinks the procedure is unreliable. Now we know it is.

She has told us that she never tries draining if the hematoma comes back. The worse that can happen is a kind of thickened part of the ear. Cauliflower but not really.

So, despite the Vet's recommendation that we drain and tape his ear down so it, well, something, we have decided to do nothing.

He is not in pain. He probably will not be. He sleeps on it.

He may not be perfectly pretty. But already I don't notice it.

He is getting on. I have scars. So might he.

If it turns bad we will reconsider but no more of the cone, the discomfort.

Surgeons always want to cut. It is prudent to really wait to see if something is life or death, then yes, operate. Or possibly will cure itself or have an acceptable outcome. Don't operate.

Once this was decided, we felt clean and easy all over again.

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