VOT sVent about vets.. help??

Dear Max, the dachsie, had surgery on his back two weeks ago today. He
had a bunch of stitches, covered with some sort of glue, on his back. He
was scheduled to have the stitches removed today ( two weeks later). I
called the vet's office on Thursday to confirm that they would be around
today, and was told that they would be there until noon. I told her I
should be there prior to 11am. We showed up, and the office was closed.
Really ****ed off, we are.

I think we could remove the stitches, IF we knew what goop (glue-like)
they put on them in the first place. Does anyone have help here??

We do plan to change the Vet for various reasons;

Gillian

Gill Murray wrote:

Dear Max, the dachsie, had surgery on his back two weeks ago today. He
had a bunch of stitches, covered with some sort of glue, on his back. He
was scheduled to have the stitches removed today ( two weeks later). I
called the vet's office on Thursday to confirm that they would be around
today, and was told that they would be there until noon. I told her I
should be there prior to 11am. We showed up, and the office was closed.
Really ****ed off, we are.

I think we could remove the stitches, IF we knew what goop (glue-like)
they put on them in the first place. Does anyone have help here??

We do plan to change the Vet for various reasons;

Good. Idiots. Well, their staff, anyway.

I wish I knew what to tell you. But I'm ****ed for you, if that helps
any. I'd be beyond furious in your place. I hope Max is doing alright.
Prolly won't hurt him to wait until Weds to have the stitches out, but
still. Grrrrrr.

Elizabeth (and Cash and Harry)
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Gill Murray wrote:

I think we could remove the stitches, IF we knew what goop (glue-like)
they put on them in the first place. Does anyone have help here??

Medical personnel are increasingly using SuperGlue (methyl methacrylate)
to close minor wounds, and vets use it to close spay incisions, so maybe
that's it.

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Great info......how do you soften it to remove the stitches???

Gill

Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:
Gill Murray wrote:


I think we could remove the stitches, IF we knew what goop (glue-like)
they put on them in the first place. Does anyone have help here??


Medical personnel are increasingly using SuperGlue (methyl methacrylate)
to close minor wounds, and vets use it to close spay incisions, so maybe
that's it.

Gill Murray wrote:

Great info......how do you soften it to remove the stitches???


Nail polish remover works on SuperGlue, but I don't think I'd use it on
an incision.

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"Karen C in California" wrote in message
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Gill Murray wrote:

Great info......how do you soften it to remove the stitches???


Nail polish remover works on SuperGlue, but I don't think I'd use it on an
incision.

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They used glue to close the incision when Puff was neutered but never
removed the stitches. They just dissolved over time.

Lucille

"lucretia borgia" wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:35:24 -0800, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to
reply opined:

Gill Murray wrote:

I think we could remove the stitches, IF we knew what goop (glue-like)
they put on them in the first place. Does anyone have help here??

Medical personnel are increasingly using SuperGlue (methyl methacrylate)
to close minor wounds, and vets use it to close spay incisions, so maybe
that's it.


If it is, it will peel away rather like sunburnt skin.


What vets use is a surgical glue - but that is used inside the incision to
help hold it together a bit more than normal incision for less scarring when
healing. Surgical glue is absorbed by the body during healing, as are
'silk' sutures.

Here, when male cats are neutered (and probably dogs, or at least the
smaller ones), no sutures are used at all, only the surgical glue.

Sounds like what your vet used outside the incision was a 'surgical skin'
(marketed to the general public by Band-Aid as Liquid Bandage
http://www.jnj.com/innovations/new_f...id_Bandage.htm)
to help keep the incision area clean (therefore less risk of infection).
This is probably peelable, as one poster suggested, but I would do a search
on it before attempting it. Or just wait a few more days, as there is
usually no harm to the patient in sutures stay in a few more days longer.

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Magic Mood Jeep wrote:
"lucretia borgia" wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:35:24 -0800, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to
reply opined:

Gill Murray wrote:


I think we could remove the stitches, IF we knew what goop (glue-like)
they put on them in the first place. Does anyone have help here??


Medical personnel are increasingly using SuperGlue (methyl methacrylate)
to close minor wounds, and vets use it to close spay incisions, so maybe
that's it.



If it is, it will peel away rather like sunburnt skin.



What vets use is a surgical glue - but that is used inside the incision
to help hold it together a bit more than normal incision for less
scarring when healing. Surgical glue is absorbed by the body during
healing, as are 'silk' sutures.

Here, when male cats are neutered (and probably dogs, or at least the
smaller ones), no sutures are used at all, only the surgical glue.

Sounds like what your vet used outside the incision was a 'surgical
skin' (marketed to the general public by Band-Aid as Liquid Bandage
http://www.jnj.com/innovations/new_f...id_Bandage.htm)
to help keep the incision area clean (therefore less risk of infection).
This is probably peelable, as one poster suggested, but I would do a
search on it before attempting it. Or just wait a few more days, as
there is usually no harm to the patient in sutures stay in a few more
days longer.

OK, thanks for the info. I can see about 4 real stitches, and he had a
lot of bright yellow stuff on him when we picked him up. There is only a
little of that left, but the area does feel really "hard".

We have used this vet for years, but I think we will change to one
nearer to the house. Neither of us like him very well, but he has had
two super junior partners over the years. They have both moved on to
greener pastures ( particularly one, who is now a big animal vet).

Gill

Gill Murray wrote:



Magic Mood Jeep wrote:

"lucretia borgia" wrote in message
...

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:35:24 -0800, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to
reply opined:

Gill Murray wrote:


I think we could remove the stitches, IF we knew what goop (glue-like)
they put on them in the first place. Does anyone have help here??



Medical personnel are increasingly using SuperGlue (methyl
methacrylate)
to close minor wounds, and vets use it to close spay incisions, so
maybe
that's it.




If it is, it will peel away rather like sunburnt skin.




What vets use is a surgical glue - but that is used inside the
incision to help hold it together a bit more than normal incision for
less scarring when healing. Surgical glue is absorbed by the body
during healing, as are 'silk' sutures.

Here, when male cats are neutered (and probably dogs, or at least the
smaller ones), no sutures are used at all, only the surgical glue.

Sounds like what your vet used outside the incision was a 'surgical
skin' (marketed to the general public by Band-Aid as Liquid Bandage
http://www.jnj.com/innovations/new_f...id_Bandage.htm)
to help keep the incision area clean (therefore less risk of
infection). This is probably peelable, as one poster suggested, but I
would do a search on it before attempting it. Or just wait a few more
days, as there is usually no harm to the patient in sutures stay in a
few more days longer.

OK, thanks for the info. I can see about 4 real stitches, and he had a
lot of bright yellow stuff on him when we picked him up. There is only a
little of that left, but the area does feel really "hard".

We have used this vet for years, but I think we will change to one
nearer to the house. Neither of us like him very well, but he has had
two super junior partners over the years. They have both moved on to
greener pastures ( particularly one, who is now a big animal vet).

Is the other junior partner available somewhere nearby?

That's how I found my current vet. He left the practice that I was
taking my dogs to and when I got sick of their mistakes (they mixed up
the lables on medicine for a 25lb Cocker and a 60lb Terv for one thing)
and of never being recognized, I went and found him. When I was
explaining to the receptionist that I was new to the practice but had
seen this vet before, he stuck his head around the corner and said "I
know you: you have a black cocker spaniel with a permanent problem.
Wait,...oh, I remember, he's deaf." Good memory. And he takes good
care of my Tervs and our cat.

Never stick with a vet you don't like or trust.

Elizabeth
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*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~living well is the best revenge~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate
and expand her sense of actual possibilities. --Adrienne Rich
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Dr. Brat wrote:
Never stick with a vet you don't like or trust.

Elizabeth



And I praise to the highest heavens our neighborhood vet. Not only just
4 blocks away (easy to hand-carry the babies over), but even my
super-skittish Divine Miss Em is totally relaxed in Dr. Katie's hands.
She ordinarily doesn't like anyone but me touching her (or even seeing her).

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Finished 12/25/07 -- several scarves for kids in Kosovo

WIP: Sesame Street group picture, MLI The Teacher (gift to the library),
Bethany Angel, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel

www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf