emsie_81
Young Bun
Hello, i need some advice about abcesses. My beautiful little Holly who i have only had 3 weeks has got an abcess near her right eye, it was caused by her problems with her cheek teeth which she had a dental on couple of weeks ago so they are now fine (well for the time being) but the abcess has got bigger. They have drained the abcess but ater 3 weeks of baytril it still hasnt got better.
Been to vets tonight for her check up and they said its the worse kind of abcess, a multi chambered one, cant remember the proper term, and he squeezed so much puss out of it, it was horrible and she was such a good girl. Vet said there wasnt much they could for it, surgery is an option but there are no guarentees it would work and even if it did likelihood is it would just come back again anyway. He said if she has one abcess likelihood is she'll have or will develop others elsewhere possibly even internal. She's on baytril for another couple of weeks and back for a check up to see if its improved at all and then we'll have to decide about surgery.
He said there might not be anything we can do to completely get rid of it and as it is so close to her eye if it gets bigger it will start damaging her eye. He said needed to prepare myself that if her quality of life starts deteriorating we might have to make that horrible horrible decision.
If anyone has any suggestions or advice on how we can do anything to help her please let me know. Im so worried we are going to lose her and we've only had her for such a short time. It took us 6 months to finally get our Hermes a girlfriend, it seems so unfair that he might lose her. Sorry for the long rambling post i'm just so worried and scared
Here is my gorgeous Holly and her ever so troublesome husbun hermes (Holly is the harlequin, Hermes is the nethie)
Been to vets tonight for her check up and they said its the worse kind of abcess, a multi chambered one, cant remember the proper term, and he squeezed so much puss out of it, it was horrible and she was such a good girl. Vet said there wasnt much they could for it, surgery is an option but there are no guarentees it would work and even if it did likelihood is it would just come back again anyway. He said if she has one abcess likelihood is she'll have or will develop others elsewhere possibly even internal. She's on baytril for another couple of weeks and back for a check up to see if its improved at all and then we'll have to decide about surgery.
He said there might not be anything we can do to completely get rid of it and as it is so close to her eye if it gets bigger it will start damaging her eye. He said needed to prepare myself that if her quality of life starts deteriorating we might have to make that horrible horrible decision.
If anyone has any suggestions or advice on how we can do anything to help her please let me know. Im so worried we are going to lose her and we've only had her for such a short time. It took us 6 months to finally get our Hermes a girlfriend, it seems so unfair that he might lose her. Sorry for the long rambling post i'm just so worried and scared
Here is my gorgeous Holly and her ever so troublesome husbun hermes (Holly is the harlequin, Hermes is the nethie)