AprilLynne
Warren Scout
I am quite worried about William tonight, but I'm hoping that I am overeating as I have a tendency to do that and make myself so anxious. :?
When I came home from work, I fed William some curly-kale as a treat and inspected his fur while I gave him some nose rubs. His cheek and neck are still bare skin from the surgery (now about 2 weeks past) and I thought I saw a very slight bulge where the abscess had been. It's just above where the vet cut and the stitches are still there - wanting to pop out, so I'm hoping that it could just be the scar and stitches. It's not big, but I'm just so worried that it could be the abscess coming back and not responding well to the antibiotic that he's been on (we switched from the original prescription to chloramphenacol after the vet grew a culture of the bacteria). the vet was so confident that it had been removed perfectly and I'm praying that he was right and I am just being a worrywart.
At the same moment I noticed that his right nostril looked a tiny bit damp. The left was perfectly dry. His right is trimmed down quite a bit as it was beside the fur they shaved for surgery, so it's probably a result of that - as he's eating lots of timothy hay and good pellets and pooing normally. I'm just quite anxious for his appointment Saturday with the vet - they will remove his stitches and hopefully reassure me that he's healing properly. I'm just quite anxious waiting for that and so afraid in the meantime that he's not.
Otherwise, he's behaving wonderfully - running round the basement and then coming upstairs to sit with me on the couch or run circles round my feet while I'm standing at the stove.
When I came home from work, I fed William some curly-kale as a treat and inspected his fur while I gave him some nose rubs. His cheek and neck are still bare skin from the surgery (now about 2 weeks past) and I thought I saw a very slight bulge where the abscess had been. It's just above where the vet cut and the stitches are still there - wanting to pop out, so I'm hoping that it could just be the scar and stitches. It's not big, but I'm just so worried that it could be the abscess coming back and not responding well to the antibiotic that he's been on (we switched from the original prescription to chloramphenacol after the vet grew a culture of the bacteria). the vet was so confident that it had been removed perfectly and I'm praying that he was right and I am just being a worrywart.
At the same moment I noticed that his right nostril looked a tiny bit damp. The left was perfectly dry. His right is trimmed down quite a bit as it was beside the fur they shaved for surgery, so it's probably a result of that - as he's eating lots of timothy hay and good pellets and pooing normally. I'm just quite anxious for his appointment Saturday with the vet - they will remove his stitches and hopefully reassure me that he's healing properly. I'm just quite anxious waiting for that and so afraid in the meantime that he's not.
Otherwise, he's behaving wonderfully - running round the basement and then coming upstairs to sit with me on the couch or run circles round my feet while I'm standing at the stove.