ratcreature: RatCreature is dejected: sigh (sigh)
RatCreature ([personal profile] ratcreature) wrote 2006-07-17 05:03 pm (UTC)

Actually I just came from the vet, and it turns out it was an abscess. Today I noticed that he was licking there a lot and it wasn't fully covered by hair anymore and the skin above it was brownish like scabbed. When I showed the vet she told me that it was an abscess that had broken open. Apparently they can't really tell the difference from just feeling these lumps, because over the last weeks two of the vets at the office examined the lump, and it's not like there had been any wound or anything I had noticed. Anyway, she drained it (and I hope I'll never see greenish pus squeezed out of one of my pets again, ick), flushed it, put on salve and gave him an antibiotic, though whether that is the right one will only be sure when the results from the swap she took come in tomorrow afternoon. So now I have to convince Dustin to take antibiotics again and wrestle him to put on salve twice daily, but I hope it'll heal well. I mean, it's the first time one of pets had such an abscess, but it has to be better than tumors, right? Right now Dustin is cross with me, possibly because this had to be one of the most unpleasant vet visits he had so far, I hope it might at least feel better for him now that the abscess is drained, and he might appreciate that.

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