good news!

[ratcreature]

The vet said that Rusty's wound looks well, and that as it looks now he won't need an OP after all, so whatever gnawing he did yesterday didn't do too much damage despite the copious bleeding. And the second antibiotic did its job against the infection, so now I don't need to give him oral meds.

As an experiment the vet actually tried to tape a little bandage around his leg to see whether that might stop him from worrying the wound as it heals (and presumably itches), though we were both a bit dubious about the chances for this working. She said if it stays on for a while it might help, if he pulls it off, I should just go back to putting salve on the wound as before. The next check is on Friday. I'm really relieved that he didn't need the operation to clean up the wound, and just hope it will now just heal, and maybe his feet finally as well. *crosses fingers*

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Hooray! I'm glad it was much better than it looked.

[ratcreature]

Me too. I really worried that if it had needed surgical intervention to clean up the infected leg, he might have disturbed the resulting bigger wound even more, with further complications and antibiotics and his overall health and weight just deteriorating further. If he now only left his leg alone for bit, we might even get to a point where I don't have to go to the vet all the time, at least for a while.

[astridv]

I'm glad you're getting some good news! (Rats don't make the best patients, to they...)

[ratcreature]

I hope he continues on this trajectory. And yes, they are pretty much of the uncooperative and non-compliant patient type. Though at least they rarely lash out (only once did I have a rat who bit the vet, and none did this to me), so I suppose it's less risky than trying to treat a cat with all their claws and fangs.

[rosaw]

Poor little guy and poor you, I hope you and he are both going to get a break.

[ratcreature]

Thanks, me too.