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<DIV>Hi all,</DIV>
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<DIV>Well the subject says it all. Gipp’s been wearing the cone of shame on his
head since Monday June 13th when he had his eye surgery to remove the 2 sists
off of his eye. It doesn’t come off he wears the cone 24/7 and he was supposed
to go back next Monday June 27th to hopefully have the stitches removed. But
that has changed and I’ll explain why here in a minute. </DIV>
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<DIV>When I have to take Gipp out to park, I take him out on leash so that he
can’t rub up against the fence. So when I take him out to park he will drop his
head and rub his left side of his face into the ground as hard as he can because
I’m assuming his eye is itchy and when he does this I get after him right away
and stop him from doing this. He’s doing this with the cone on. It’s so hard to
try to keep him from rubbing his left side of his face and eye on the ground.
Rick and I are always getting after him for doing this and stopping him from
doing it and because of Gipp rubbing his side of his face and eye into the
ground he will make it bleed a little. Rick is always checking his eye for any
discharge that he has and whiping his eye off and he thinks that Gipp might have
popped a stitch this past Friday andover this past weekend. I called the vet’s
office on Friday afternoon and left a message with them to call me on
Saturday. Rick didn’t notice the popped stitch until after the vet was closed
for the evening on this past Friday. Well the vet’s office called me
Saturday late morning and wanted to know if we wanted to bring him in on this
past Saturday but we couldn’t that day because we were doing a Lions event with
our Lions food trailer and Rick is the one who transports our Lions food trailer
back and fourth to and from events. So we scheduled Gipp to come in and see the
doc on Monday today at 2:30 PM to have doc look at his eye.</DIV>
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<DIV>Well the vet assistant took Gipp into the back room and it only took doc a
minute or so to look at Gipp’s eye and Gipp did in fact popped his stitches both
on top and on the bottum. So doc wants us to bring Gipp in tomorrow morning at 9
AM and drop him off so doc can put him back under and restitch the top and
bottum of his eye for the second time. So this means Gipp will have to wear the
cone of shame even longer now. I know I’m doing everything the doc wants me to
do with Gipp but Gipp isn’t making it easy for me and for himself. I know Gipp
don’t understand why he can’t rub his left side of his face and eye on anything
because I know it itches him but I was hopeing to advoid having to go back a
second time and have doc restitch his eye. So need less to say I’m not very
happy right now and Gipp sure won’t be a very happy boy when he comes home
tomorrow from restitching his eye up. </DIV>
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<DIV>I’ll update you all sometime tomorrow after I bring Gipp back home with
me. I’m really frustrated and upset that Gipp did this and I know I’m
doing everything I can to try to prevent Gipp from rubbing his left side of his
face on the ground, fence, or anything else that he might be able to rub the
side of the cone and his face and eye on. I’ll keep everyone posted. Take
care.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lori and the Gipper</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>