January 13, 2012:

 5^th day of treatment.  Old man winter may have been late to the party, but he knows how to make an entrance.  4+ inches of snow and still coming down.  I had to work today and Tim was off so he took Arri to his treatment.  They had to leave early to allow time for the weather and accidents.  They got home a little later than normal and Arri has a bandage on his leg.  Tim lets Arri in the house and turns around to go shovel the driveway.  I open the door and shout out….’ummmm, so what is with the bandage?’  “I don’t know, I didn’t ask”.  Sigh .. he did say the appointment was about twice as long.  Apparently Arri didn’t come out of sedation as well today.  Maybe that is the result it being the 5^th day of treatment in a row.  Now he has two days off. 

Later in the evening, I removed the bandage from his foot.  This was his front foot.  At first, I didn’t notice why it was wrapped.  There had been no gauze, just the stretchy, sticky bandage wrap.  A bit later, I notice a very large welt on his foot.  It was at the connection of the foot and ‘pinky’ toe.  There was a blood spot in the middle.  Had it been summer, I would have said it was a bee sting reaction.  It seemed to be an extremely odd location for a needle.  His ‘good’ back leg had been shaved for easy access to the vein.  I’m confused.  I’ll have to ask on Monday.