Hugo's There
Wise Old Thumper
Nessa is at the vets tomorrow evening to discuss her abscess and make a decision as to whether a GA is needed.
As you know I had trouble keeping it open and clean, but as it wasn't a large abscess it seemed to be doing quite well on its own. I made the decision rightly or wrongly to leave it alone and wait for her 2 week check up date before taking her back to the vets just to give her a week or so to enjoy life without being poked and proded.
I was becoming quite optomistic that things would be ok until Friday evening when the swelling returned but in a slightly different place, just on the bridge of her nose.
This evening I just picked her up to put back in her cage and I thought her breathing sounded funny again. It is clicking as she breathes, but not snuffly. But she has another lump come up this time on her upper lip just down from her nostril.
All these abscesses are quite small but we obviously haven't got the problem under control. Will a GA to clean these even help the problem? I don't want to put her under if it's not going to help her, I can't risk it.
As you know I had trouble keeping it open and clean, but as it wasn't a large abscess it seemed to be doing quite well on its own. I made the decision rightly or wrongly to leave it alone and wait for her 2 week check up date before taking her back to the vets just to give her a week or so to enjoy life without being poked and proded.
I was becoming quite optomistic that things would be ok until Friday evening when the swelling returned but in a slightly different place, just on the bridge of her nose.
This evening I just picked her up to put back in her cage and I thought her breathing sounded funny again. It is clicking as she breathes, but not snuffly. But she has another lump come up this time on her upper lip just down from her nostril.
All these abscesses are quite small but we obviously haven't got the problem under control. Will a GA to clean these even help the problem? I don't want to put her under if it's not going to help her, I can't risk it.
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