stevo's Journal

Stupid, me! I thought I wouldn't see her ear until the doctors remove the bandages, next visit. Sunday morning, Gala removed her Ace bandage from her right front leg (where they had an I.V.) and her tight ear bandage. She is like Houdini escaping a straight-jacket.

So it has been healing and airing out, so it looks good and regular pink, not inflamed. They removed the hair inside her ear plus clipped her fur short all around the affected ear. They did not use very many sutures to stitch both layers of cartilage back. Her ear now has a slightly odd shape, but it's not a flippy or broken ear.

Five hundred and forty bucks. 

This morning I brought Gala home from her overnight a the Animal Hospital. I took her to the Animal Medical Clinic yesterday at 10 AM. She had hematoma in her ear which was puffed up like a pillow. Their ears are made of 2 layers of cartilage. There was a broken blood vessel  between the 2 layers, inside, which filled up her ear with liquid.

They put sutures. I won't see them until next week, when they remove the large bandage covering her ear.

Anita told me about her cat Mortimer who had the same procedure. They put 28 sutures in an array just like a tufted quilt. This will keep the 2 layers met together so they will heel in proper formation. 

Also inside, they must have cauterized any broken blood vessels to stop anymore bleeding, leaking.

Gala is sleeping, nice. 

What?

You never know unless you ask. However when I asked this same question last year, I received a noncommittal  (what?) But, that's just how it is with elderly. Just when you think they are cruising the Andromeda Galaxy in their Astral Bodies, they snap up sharp with an answer of precise rote knowledge or logic as keen as The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, [written down my Nicomachus, student of Aristotle.] Later for that.

I asked what precise time was it when I was born. 1:11 AM on 11/11/1950.