Our poor charlie boy :(

So Charlie has had a lump on his throat for about 5 months. It has been pea sized for the entire time. The vets looked at it and said it was not threatening or anything so we decided to leave it. Well this saturday (on my birthday) we woke up and it was swollen about softball size and taking up his entire throat. Sunday, it turned red and bloody. At this point I thought it was an abscess and called the vet. Scheduled to bring him in tuesday morning. when we got their they said it was a cyst and needed to be removed that day, so he went into surgery.

During the surgery they found that it was growing on his main artery. So they had to cut his artery, remove the cyst, and reattach the artery. This also means a simple surgery, and only a 1 inch incision, turned into a complex deal and about an 8 inch incision.

We picked him up at 7pm and he was a mess. All bandaged up and bleeding. We panicked when we got him home because he was bleeding a lot more than expected. We stayed up almost all night watching him, and today I didn't go to work and just spent the day caring for him. He's doing a lot better now, but still bleeding every now and then and we can tell he's in some pain.

Recovery is expected to take 2-4 weeks. I cried myself to sleep last night because I was so worried. He's our baby boy and I feel so bad seeing him like this. :(