Well Visken had surgery yesterday to remove two skin tags (basically benign skin tumors). The one skin tag was on his leg and was getting quite big. He was continually biting it so we decided before it broke open and got infected we would have it removed. The second one however was on his eyelid. He had this one removed in August when he had dental work done, but this one unfortunately grew back. It was causing pressure on his eye, so his eye was continually blood shot. Thankfully a really great friend of ours is a vet at the University of Florida Vet School (and watches Visken when we are away and loves him dearly), so we scheduled him for surgery yesterday. Surgery went well, however Visken has to wear this lovely cone on his head for the next 2 weeks and have eye ointment put in his eye twice a day. (The last time they just basically cut the tag off so he didn't have the cone, but this time they took off a fair chunk around the area so they had to stitch the eyelid back together.) Then in 2 weeks we will take him over to Julie and she will remove his stitches. Ethan was quite confused last night as to why Visken had this ridiculous thing on his head, and Visken was recruiting him to "help" get it off so it should be interesting if this actually stays on his head for 2 weeks. And...we have a birthday party at our house this weekend for Ethan and his playgroup friends, so we will have 7+ soon to be 2 year olds in our house. Poor Visken!
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