Lola's Bruise (and bald spot)

After a weekend trip to the vet, my poor Lola is sporting a nice little bald spot.

A few months ago Lola was due for some shots. We made our trip to the vet, got our shots and that was that. Well a week or so later Lola got a bit stinky, like all dogs do, and I discovered what looked like a bruise. Lola didn't seem to upset about it so I decided to keep an eye on it. I figured it was either a reaction to a shot or Graham had attempted to beat her up.

A bit later, maybe a month, our groomer noticed it. All I can think is "Great, now PetSmart things I abuse my dogs!". When we picked her up our groomer had already left for the day but the other girls pointed it out....same spot as it had been when I originally saw it. I asked the groomers, after telling them I was aware they probably had no answer for me, if it was a bruise or something I should be concerned with. Of course, they had no answer, but said it looked like how dogs with massive mats look after the mats are being cut and how they all found it odd since she had no mats. So we left the groomers and decided to just keep our eyes on it. Our wedding was in a few weeks and, like before, she wasn't acting like it bothered her.

So now that the wedding is nearly two months over with, Lola was getting another bath and.....that dang bruise was STILL THERE!!!! A few days later a postcard came saying she was due for her bordetella at the vet and I thought, thank god, we are going to get this checked out now.

Of course this pesky bruise isn't any easy to see with her massive amount of fur that is in some needing of being groomed. So while at the vet I pushed her fur around a bit and was able to find it to show our vet. From the little viewing area we had it almost looked like a little scratch. I thought in my head "great it's clearing up!". Our vet asked if we had noticed her being itchy lately and both Josh and I agreeded that nothing was out of the norm. The vet suggested that we shave a little spot of her fur and he would give us some cream to put on it since it really did look like a spot that had been itched to much. We gave the go ahead to shave a little spot and to the vet's surprise the little scratch was defiantly not a scratch.

Our vet agreed it was defiantly more bruise like and was a bit shocked on how big it was once the fur was gone. He seems a bit baffled by it but gave Lola a shot of antibiotics in hopes that it would clear up whatever was causing it. So not only does my little Lola have a bruise, and an officially weird bruise, but she is also now rocking a bald spot. If she is standing it is pretty unnoticeable due to her hair's length but when she lays down it's pretty visible. 

I'm trying not to worry about it to much. Although it hasn't gone away, it also hasn't gotten any worse. And Like I said above, she doesn't even seem to notice it.

 If anyone has any ideas of what this might be your help would be greatly appreciated. It's not very fun when something isn't quite 100% right with your fur-baby and your vet can't give you an answer. I'm hoping someone out there has dealt with something like this before and can help calm my nerves by having some type of answer.