The comedian, who on Monday asked social media users to help decipher her lung cancer scan results after her surgeon “ghosted” her, revealed on Twitter that her beloved pet would be taking a trip to the veterinarian.
Posting a photo of Maggie relaxing beside a swimming pool, Suddenly Susan star Griffin, 61, wrote: “Lil Maggie the dawg is getting a tooth extracted today. We tried to get her to stop eating rocks.”
However, the medical trip turned out to be a lot less serious than initially feared, as Griffin’s husband, Randy Bick, revealed in a follow-up tweet.
Posting another photo of Maggie, Bick said: “Maggie is home! A little drowsy but overall in great health. The doctor only had to remove / fix a small slab fracture but the tooth is saved (and the root is very healthy!) The Pack is Back!”
“Don’t worry, she will be extra super duper spoiled with treats and cuddles,” Griffin commented in response to the tweet.
Griffin often shares details of her home life with her dogs. In May, she received a flood of advice from her Twitter followers after one of her dogs had taken to chewing his own testicles.
Griffin posted video footage of the dog in question, as the comedian said on camera: “He’s been doing this since we got him. I took him to the vet and I said, ‘Why does Elliot chew his own d***?’ And they said, ‘Oh, they a lot of dogs play.’ I said, ‘No, no, he’s chewing. It’s changing colors!’”
“My dog Elliot has a very bizarre habit,” Griffin wrote in an accompanying caption. “He chews his penis. Like, he chews on it like it’s a treat. Yes I’ve talked to the vet and they said there’s nothing they can do unless I want to ‘pull his sheath over.’ No I will not be letting any vet operate on his SHEATH.”
On Monday, Griffin asked her social media followers for help in understanding her recent lung cancer scan results.
The TV personality announced that she was diagnosed with the disease back in August 2021, before revealing in November that she was cancer-free.
However, she has since expressed fears that her voice will never go back to normal, after it was altered to a higher pitch than usual as a result of her treatment.
“Just had my one year lung cancer CT scan. Should get results within a couple of days,” she wrote on August 18, commenting the next day: “I haven’t had an oncologist until now, so I tracked down one who specializes in breast cancer not lung, but she could order the scan of my lungs. Anyway, now they said the results will be in 72 hours. Monday.”
When Monday rolled around, it appeared that Griffin was no more the wiser on the state of her health, as she published the results online in the hopes that somebody with expertise in that area could impart some knowledge.
“You guys, I don’t really have an oncologist & the surgeon who removed half my lung ghosted me, but I think my #lungcancer scan is clean,” she tweeted. “So, since I can’t get anyone on the phone out of my thousands of doctors to interpret this, I’m asking #CancerTwitter! Hey #oncology…”
When one of Griffin’s followers asked whether she had tried a particular doctor in the Los Angeles area, the TV personality responded: “He was the surgeon who did my 1/2 left lung removal.
“But, I lost confidence in him bc the day he did my surgery in the am, he himself underwent anesthesia a couple hours later in the same hospital & had his own knee operated on. So he didn’t eat or drink before he cut me.”
Stating that her situation “sucks,” Griffin went on to share of the surgeon: “He ruined my vocal chords & my arytenoids permanently! My voice is my living.
“It’s discouraging 2 me that people are sticking up 4 a surgeon who has caused me so many difficulties. I had stage 1. I sure wish I had gotten chemo/radiation instead of surgery with this hack Dr.”
Griffin possibly got an answer to her initial inquiry when a Twitter user told her that “the report looks great. But to be fully reassured, you really need to schedule an appointment with a pulmonary oncologist and have them look at the actual scan.”
“Thx Doc! I don’t know one. I don’t even have a pulmonologist,” Griffin wrote back. “The dude I had is like 85 years old. Also no more men. Not kidding. I’d prefer a female under 50. I’d love recommendations for Cedars, St Johns or UCLA! I’ve had s***ty care & it makes me extremely fearful and anxious.”