Back at the vets

Well, the lump seemed to be doing okay, until we realised that although the initial lump wasn't growing, there was an offshoot, diving into his fur lower down Shadow's neck, where it was happily bulging. That bulge was growing, so on Monday evening Shadow went back to the vets.

They explained that there were many fluid filled sacs in the lump, which were being individually drained (poor Shadow!), and that the culture was sterile - there was no bacteria in the pus, so more antibiotics wont help. Given that the lump was spreading and growing, they decided to keep him overnight with the idea of giving him a general and opening the lump to open all the sacs and clean it all out. Unfortunately it was a busy night, so he didn't have this op until this morning.

The op went well, but they have left an opening to the wound to drain it - or something like that - and they wanted to keep him in until the wound was not oozing as heavily, partially to oversee him, and partially to keep him away from anything that might infect the wound. They called us this afternoon to say Shadow is still oozing, and again tonight to say that he is oozing less. The vet might clean the wound out again tomorrow morning.

If this relatively minor problem, begun as a reaction to an injection, does not begin to resolve itself, I have no idea what we will do next.