Well the antibiotics are doing their thing and the swelling has gone down quite a bit on Topaz’s face. It’s almost to where it was when we first asked the vet. Almost.
But, this is good! The antibiotics are working and so far, no seizures!
Yay!
Still gonna have to get that tooth looked at and/or extracted. Not looking forward to that…or the bill from that!
But, my puppa is doing much better!
Topaz was actually really good at the vet. He wasn’t too worked up and didn’t need a muzzle. The vet came in and looked at his face and had me lift his lip so she could see his tooth.
She thinks the molar is bad, possibly chipped, and most likely needs to be removed. So we got an estimate: $325.00 - $450.00. I guess it’s not too bad, but we rarely have this much money to spend on anything. But if it’s needed, we’ll make it work.
Of course, I’m worried about him having surgery and having a seizure, but I guess we’ll cross that road when we come to it.
She did give us antibiotics for him – Keflex (Cephalexin) – and so far so good on not having a seizure. Hopefully that continues!
We gave Topaz Benadryl and no change, so we’re going to take him into the vet and see what’s going on.
Our appointment is at 8:00pm, the vet is doing emergency surgery right now so we have to wait till then. Gives me a chance to get ready and we’re going to try to give him some Valium an hour before we are to leave and see if that helps him calm down any…it didn’t before, but we maybe didn’t give it enough time to kick in before. Hopefully it will work this time and calm him down!
Pictures of his face:
Will definitely update…
Topaz has a swelling on the left side of his face. We just took him to the vet on Thursday and everything looked good (Kbr and heartworm test both good as well). I am assuming it’s a bug bite or sting, so we gave him 50mg of Benadryl to see if it goes down.
It literally came out of no where which is why I’m thinking it’s a bug bite.
He did have a bump but the doctor looked at it and said it was hard like bone and seemed to be either his normal or on the bone. We may do an xray later on to see if it’s just his skull or something else.
So we’re going to keep an eye on him for now. He’s horrible at the vet and gets ALL worked up so we don’t want to have to take him in for anything if we don’t have to.
Poor baby! Will update later with a picture too.
