Daisy (8m old choc lab) was spayed on Tuesday. Friday she had her post-op check where the vet declared her all ok, we mentioned the wound looked worse than it did when she first had the op. but we were told all normal.
Yesterday around 4.30pm watery blood started dripping from the wound. Called the vets who did the op but they don't operate an OOH surgery, referred to the local PDSA who they have a reciprocal link with. Rather than take her there, took her to another local vet as it was closer and we needed her seeing asap.
They checked her very thoroughly, diagnosed a seroma, bandaged her and told us to remove the bandage this morning and call them to let them know how it was.
All was ok this morning then about 30 minutes after removing the bandaging I noticed some skin tissue hanging out of the wound site. Took straight to vets who saw her yesterday and the vet advised it was fat hanging out, not the first level (?) but second. Daisy needs to be operated on again to resolve this.
Now, we have been quoted £700 to do this. The original spay was £108. I am going to try and get the original vet who performed the spay to do this next operation, would you expect to have to pay for this? Naturally the other vets will charge, but said if they had performed the spay and this had happened, they would reoperate to fix this new issue without charge.
I'm just looking for advice really. The vets have kept Daisy in tonight, rebandaged her and given antibs in case of infection.
I just need opinions on the situation really, and if anyone has any advice or dealt with this before then I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks.
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Gorran · 09/12/2012 19:38
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