Text Box: Happy New Year to all of my friends out there!!!! It’s me Will with a long past due update! Sorry, but Mom has been really busy taking care of all of us, everyday things and then came the Holidays! Okay, in August, you all know that I had to go back and see Dr. Shores so he could check on my last surgery to see how I was mending. He was very pleased that the hole in my pallet is almost completely closed but told Mom that I had to have one more surgery to finalize the hole as it has only healed 95%. This was to take place in February. I also started my heartworm treatment in mid August, which I completed with flying colors! I had to be stuck back in that same room again and put in a crate so that I would be still. That I did not like at all! Every time I think I’m finally free, another surgery comes up or something happens such as my heartworm treatment or an infection and there I go again back to that same room! Okay, as I mentioned I was to go back for my surgery in February but that changed immediately. In mid October, Mom noticed that my cheek was swollen and a hole developing in my upper cheek area close to my nose bone and she thought it was my nose bone protruding through so she immediately made an appointment and took me to see Dr. Rick. Boy, was it good to see him again, he is so nice to me and he was really happy to see me again! After examining me, I was put on antibiotics and Mom was informed that there was nothing else he could do for me that I needed to go back to see Dr. Shores. Mom called Mississippi State University (MSU) two weeks later as Dr. Shores was not available and I was scheduled to go back to MSU on November 1st, so that Dr. Shores could determine what was going on with the this new hole in my nose. I was scheduled for surgery on November 2nd. What Mom thought was my nose bone coming through my nose, turned out to be my time released antibiotic beads that were starting to work their way out through my mid nose area creating this hole. Due to this new problem, they had to go in and remove some of the beads from my nose and at the same time, they also decided to go ahead and finalize the last bit of the hole in my pallet. After the surgery was done everyone felt very good about the procedure feeling that this may be the final closure to my pallet. While I was still under they decided to do a culture on me and found that due to these beads working themselves out they found that it started another nasty infection of three bugs growing in my nose. I believe the same kind of bugs that I had back in March when I had to stay at MSU for almost two and one-half months. Some of these time released beads are still in my nose as my surgeon told Mom if they tried to go in and remove all of them, it would be a very extensive and traumatic surgery and of course expensive. However, they also said that it may have to be done in the future should these beads try to work themselves out as the others did. They also told Mom that while I was there, they noticed that the cheek area where they pulled down the tissue over my gum is not holding as anticipated and they want to do another surgery this month which will involve ordering more tissue extenders as there is nothing left to pull down over my gum area. This surgery in it self may take several surgeries for the surgeons to do what they want to accomplish. After this most recent surgery, they put me on Tricycoline to cure my infections. Dr. Rick placed a catheter in my leg so that Mom could take care of me at home since I had to get three injections a day for three weeks and every week I had to go back to Dr. Rick to get my catheter replaced until the medicine was gone. Dr. Rick thought it would be best that I be confined so that I could not hurt myself with this catheter in me. So back to that same room again and back in that same crate. Gosh, I can’t wait until I can just roam around the house like all those other Collies get to do.

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