I called my own vet clinic and talked to Carolyn the vet. She seems to think that since Darby doesn’t have any infections to take her off the Keflex and see if the rashes stop. She’s wondering if the Keflex might be causing the bleeding in the urine that she had, though that side effect isn’t listed. She’s leaning more towards the surgeon expressing the bladder (sort of squeezing it) before surgery so Darby wouldn’t urinate upon coming out of the anesthesia. This makes a lot of sense to me.

So this is what I’m going to do with her. I’ll take her off the Keflex and watch her very closely. If the rashes disappear, then we know that’s what was causing it. Poor baby, this is just what she needs.

She is being such a trooper. If I was her I would have been going crazy with the inactivity by now.

	IKM brought by 3 huge knuckle bones for Darby today. She chewed on one for a couple of hours before I took it away so she would go to sleep. She zonked out almost immediately. Its driving Shanny crazy that she can't have the bones and Kongs.
This is the rash I'm seeing on Darby's hip area. It seems to come and go which is what is so weird about it.
	This is the rash I'm seeing around her mouth. Its not showing up well in the picture, but the hair around her muzzle is thinner too.
This is the rash that is showing up around Darby's incision. They don't seem to itch her too badly, but they do come and go and she's not licking it, which is a huge plus.

She is putting her foot down more as she walks. I caught her actually pawing at the back door to open it as we came in from outside yesterday. I'm supporting her hindquarters still with the sling. I'll do that until I see Dr. K on the 15th and I'm told I can stop doing it. I don't want her to back track on her recovery.

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