wound care

so- when we returned from mexico and california last tuesday, we went to meet the farm lady to pick up the pups. we got home and opened the front gate so they could just run in straight from the car. right when mike was opening the car door to let them run in i noticed a cat in the yard. not only was it a cat, but it was the one that purposefully teased them on several occasions. needless to say it was too late to stop them. they were both running full speed, about to round the corner, when BAMN! mona ran right into the cast iron arm rest of a miniature bench. she broke the cast iron in three different places and it ripped her side. over 200 stitches later she seemed to be doing okay. i've been giving her antibiotics and pain pills twice a day, she's been wearing the big, plastic collar thing that she hates, and she's been quarantined in the kitchen so that lewy doesn't eat her drainage tube off. well, today i woke up and noticed a pea sized hole developing on one side of the suture. it's sunday so the vet isn't open. i decided to wait until first thing tomorrow morning rather than take her to the emergency place, unless the whole got bigger. well, it grew bigger, and bigger. it grew to about 3-4 inches long. i took her to the emergency place and they wrapped it up so well that it cost 120$. this is just until tomorrow when i can take her back to her regular vet and they can re-do the entire surgery because it has gotten infected somehow. the girl at the place informed me that we have a long road of wound care ahead of us. a looong road of wound care.