One Hematoma Too Many

Poor Sadie.  She has suffered through three ear hematomas in her left ear, due to her excessive head shaking when she had itchy ear infections.  Each time, Dr. Nina had to make an incision in Sadie’s ear to relieve the pressure from the blood that had built up inside the ear and inject her ear with a steroid.  Sadie had her ear bandaged to her head each time and she had to wear a cone for weeks to prevent her from shaking her head and scratching at her ear.

This time was one hematoma too many, because the cartilage in Sadie’s ear has been so damaged that the ear won’t stand up any more and now she has one normal prick ear and one floppy ear.  Her traditional Scottie looks are gone forever, so it’s a good thing that Wen had a nice portrait of Sadie taken at Red Rocks last summer so that we have a really nice picture of her before the ear hematomas broke down the cartilage in her left ear.

It’s kind of sad that Sadie will never look the same, but she is so happy to not be wearing a bandage and the cone that she doesn’t seem to care if one of her ears doesn’t stand anymore.

 

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