Hamish

Spoke to my mum tonight and she said her dog, a Westie named Hamish, is not well. She took him to the vet as a big swelling appeared on his head. The vet did not know what it was as there was no marks on the skin. She put a needle in it and used a syringe to draw out the liquid. The stuff that came out proved it was an infection but still no idea why. She said if it had been a bite or wound it would have had an entry point and an abscess would have had a head on it.

He had some pain killers and antibiotics and he is going to have an operation tomorrow, well today now. They will investigate and hopefully sort it all out. Hamish was very good even with the draining with the syringe.

Hope he will be alright I think the world of him.

As for the lithium I have not had any side effects yet but I assume being on a low dose and it still building up I am not likely too. I never told my mum about the new meds. I did say I will have seen the pdoc 3 times in a month and need a bloodtest but she never asked why or how I was. No change there I suppose, ever get the feeling no-one cares?