Well after staying up until 2am last night and barely getting any sleep I thought that I had made a decision to consult another vet. However when I discussed this with my husband he said absolutely not! He said he has been killing himself just to pay for the amp surgery and now we are accruing a bill daily for the bandaging and the vets housecalls. He says that he will not allow me to consult another vet because of the cost that will probably be involved. He said we will just have to ride it out. So I guess I will just have to pray harder for God to get me through this and to please heal Valentina. Today the drainage is still a constant steady flow and it is a kind if thick dark reddish burgundy color. It does not smell bad anymore. She seems to feel ok. She did eat her breakfast today and her gums are nice and pink. I don't know what else to do but wait and pray. To afford the surgery we had to skip buying groceries the week of the surgery and my husband said that we will also have to cut $100 off of our grocery bill until the bill is paid off. My husband says there is no more money to do anything else.

 I feel like I am in the middle of a horrible nightmare!!!!!!!!! This morning when Valentina got up to go out her bandage burst open again and a terrible flood of bloody fluid came gushing out everywhere.It looked so much like blood to me. It was very red and there was alot!!!! My husband won't let me get a second opinion on this so I had no choice but to call my regular vet. He told me that this has gone on longer than he'd like.DUH!!!!!!!!! Then he said I needed to bring her in to have it irrigated. It's 101 degrees outside with a heat index of 115 and Valentina could barely make it outside to pee. She laid down in the grass. I don't see how irrigating this will do any good. How is that going to stop this so called drainage/bleeding? Also my husband is at work and I have no one to help me transport her anyway. The told me to bring her in in the morning and they would fit her in. I hope we can make it until then. This is one of the most horrible things that I have ever had to go through. Valentina still seems ok. Other than her laying in the grass when I took her out she is ok. She ate her breakfast and seemed alert.

   I just got back from rushing Valentina to the vet. My brother in law wasn't answering his phone because he had to take my sister to the ER. She is ok. He came over to help me change Valentina's bandage and to see if he thought that there was something wrong. He is an EMT and said that the fluid coming out was indeed pure blood. Her gums had become pale and so we rushed her to the vet. I wasn't happy with what the vet said. He said he was going to irrigate it and put a compression bandage back on. I asked him if he would need to go in and tie up something that was causing the bleeding and he said that they usually don't like to go back in. Well I don't see what irrigating it can do. It was bleeding so much! Like 2 cups worth in about 10min!!! we had to wrap her with loads of bandaging to get her to the vet without it leaking  and it leaked through the bandage in a couple of minutes. He said she has to stay overnight. I told him to call me with an update before he leaves for the day. He leaves at 5 I think. So now I just have to sit here and worry. I did sign a paper for them to do what they have to do to fix it. My husband doesn't know that yet. He is at work. I guess he will just have to be mad at me. Please pray that my Valentina is going to be ok. I never would have done this if I had known that this would happen.But I guess there is no way to know that things like this will happen. I am just so mad at the vets for acting like this was no big deal all this time. She had this going on when they first released her and they didn't even tell me. They should have prepared me that there was going to be some drainage and that it would probably take a while to resolve. But they didn't say a thing except that they would come to my house on Tuesday to change the bandage. It was Saturday!! That would be three days!! After I got home and discovered that it was draining so much I called them and said I think that it needs to be changed before Tuesday. And they said they would do it on Monday. It was completely saturated by then and leaking all over the place. At that point I had not yet learned to change the bandage myself. After a while I realized that it needed to be changed daily and I learned to do it myself. I can't believe this is happening. I thought by now I would be feeling better about my decision and she would be happily hopping around. I am seriously wondering why I did this and my husband is very angry with me for choosing to do so.