Scooby's Surgery Saga: The Suture Continues...

Finally, after more than two weeks of abstinence from water, Scooby got his bath. As I was washing his operated ear, I felt something hard poking me. 'Oh shit! Don't tell me...'

Sure enough, the vet missed removing one suture. Glaring at me, from the not-so-furry surface of Scooby's ear was this thick blue plastic thread, magnified by my anger and disappointment of the incompetence of a vet. Arggghhhhhhhhh....... I must have either owed the vet or Scooby a heavy debt in my past life... to be put through all this nonsense.
(OK, this is superstitious Chinese talk about past lives, fate and debts but I'm not superstitious but it just seems so appropriate to think it, arrrghhhhhh...)

So I called the vet, again...

Me: Doctor, you missed a suture...

Vet: Oh, a ha ha ha, really ar, what does it look like, is it one of those self-dissolving sutures or the nylon ones?

At this point, I was thinking aloud, "WTF! You can use self dissolving sutures and you used nylon ones on my dog... dang you!!!!"

Me: Doctor, it is blue in color and it looks like my thickest nylon guitar string. Anyway, is there a problem if I leave the suture there?

Vet: Oh no, it will irritate the dog and he will scratch it. Why don't you bring him over or you can try to remove it yourself?

Thinking aloud again, "Screw . . . you miss a suture and put me through doggy hell and now you want me to remove a suture? There's a reason I'm not a vet, you know"

Me: *blood boiling* Okay, I'll see if I can find the time to bring him over...

. . . entertaining violent thoughts at this point . . .