Update-exactly 1 month since AMP
Thanks for all the kind words everyone. To piggy back off some of the comments, I thought it was really cool for my vet to NOT charge considering they did NOT do the amputation..I have only paid about $200 to them since this whole ordeal started. My family has been going there for at least 30 years but none of the line level staff knows that..anyway class act folks.
So we had a semi almost major hiccup. So when I was in there last week, the Dr did seem kind of puzzled things were not progressing further but did state we were on the later end of the scale as far as time is concerned for healing from an amp and wanted to see him back this week (today). Monday night I was looking at the wound and went...man something stinks. The wound was starting to smell pretty bad...thinking to myself not good. Cleaned it the best I could and continued his antibiotics. So it turns out, a piece of stitch had spiraled and knotted (think a cliche pig tail) around some of the skin and the skin had folded itself on top of the stitch-making it almost impossible to see. To complicate things even further-the plastic compound to make the stitch (this was one of the stitches designed to COME OUT and not self dissolve) turns out some dogs are allergic to the plastic. So essentially Milo's body recognized a foreign object and was going into over time trying to force the object out of his body. The puss and stink smell I observed was a bi product of the body trying to push the object out.
The vet today realized that something had to be off-went into the wound further and found the piece of stitch I described and removed it. This was actually the third Dr I've seen-get a different one each week and I really like this one...he is older (not that old but when compared to the others...hes probably early 50s) and only works part time and really has my confidence in his knowledge. Takes the time to really describe the issue. Anyway he says things should be like night and day moving forward now that this object is out.
Only bad news is ANOTHER WEEK OF THE CONE!! damn cone was supposed to be a 10-14 day ordeal and I am now starting week 5 !! ughhh...such is life !!
PS went to happy hour earlier...do not feel like proof reading...please forgive me with this picture i took of Milo boy like 20 minutes ago just smiling away...his nick name is Smilo after all