swollen face still - update, new vet page 3

Hi
I'm not actually home at the minute... but my friend says that Whissy's face is still very swollen from her accident on Sunday. Her 5 days of penicillin ended yesterday.... I take it she does still need to stop the penicillin whether her face is still swollen or not, as she shouldn't be getting too much of the stuff?

LW

 

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ok. well first I will see if I can get one of the guys to get my friend to look at her to see what she thinks. I dont quite trust the guys judgement...

and I will be back day after tomorrow... which will be exactly 1 week after her accident. Hopefully that is soon enough if she needs to go back to the vet.

In the meantime is it good to have stopped the penicillin or should I continue...?(get them to continue)

LW

 

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I'm not home... I dont know what it looks like

LW

 

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Dad has been instructed to get the guys to continue the pen... and to get my friend to look at her mouth.
I have streptomycin too if necessary.
LW

 

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Ok i am now home... and not a happy bunny

This is Whisper's face today:




As you can see, her stitches have torn out, she is drooling cud all down her face as she cannot hold it in her mouth... and I am quite upset.

So much for the guys keeping an eye on her. I'm planning another vet trip tomorrow to get her seen. I phoned the vet today and he said "leave it another week" but hopefully he just didnt understand the situation!

It's not infected and the swelling has gone down, so I am not continuing any penicillin in the meantime. I feel helpless anyway. She does not appear to be in any pain and is chewing her cud (and drooling it) quite happily.

I just hope that it doesnt mean she will always have that slit at the side of her mouth. It is ONE WEEK now and they should have done something sooner. I am angry and upset and arrrghh. The guy minding them says that he doesn't really feel any emotions for them and it is just like looking after a shed to him. I dont know how I am going to cope these last 5 days away from home (Wednesday through Sunday) before I am back for the rest of the month.

My parents are very sympathetic and I think my dad will be out there looking at the animals during the week.

LW

 

Re: swollen face still - update, photos

Well I am going to phone him again tomorrow morning and say "I'm really quite concerned about her, can I bring her around sometime this afternoon" and see what he says. I dont want to go to another vet because he is known as the "goat vet" around here and... yeah well... we'll see. I really want him to see her though! her mouth is kind of hanging down there, as you can see in the 2nd photo.

LW

 

Re: swollen face still - update, photos

I went to the vets with her, he didn't want to know, he said she was fine, he didnt want me to show him how the stitches were ripped out. He cut the lower one off (and part of the skin too so it bled) when I complained that it was hanging down there, he was very brusque and rough and didn't care at all. I was almost in tears and my friend who drove me agreed that he was very nasty about it. He said in a couple of months she'll be fine and only drooling "a bit". I dont want her to be drooling AT ALL I want it to be healed!!!

This is after I ask him to sort out blood tests for my goats and he refuses and says it's a load of bull**** and he can't be bothered.

I feel like a traitor thinking about going to someone else seeing that we have ALWAYS had him as a vet ever since we first arrived like 25 years ago before I was born. But I am quite upset and am going to phone a neighbour and see what vet he goes to and see what my options are.

And now I am going to go get some warm water and salt and clean up Whissy's face. I am also going to keep her inside so that hopefully she doesnt have so much mess on her face from grass cud. Please if anyone thinks that's a bad idea let me know...

and I am giving her different hay that is finer and less coarse so hopefully it doesn't hurt her face so much. I feel really bad for her and just don't know what to do. :angry: :hair: