Doormouse
Well-Known Member
Long, long and very expensive story but cut short, last September my very precious old man had to have 2 upper back teeth removed as one was rotten and the other fractured. Surgeon rang me during removal to warn that removing both (fractured one hadn't shown on x-ray) could make healing tricky. Well, he wasn't kidding!
1 month on and the packing fell out, very snotty nose resumed. Back to hospital to debride hole and repack. Packing fell out 2 weeks later. Snots resumes, begins to stink after a month. Anyway, this goes on with masses of course of antibiotics all winter, sometimes the snot I'd better, sometimes it is awful.
Eventually we decide that Dr Green is the best so,union and so in April he was turned out in a huge field with lots of grass and shelter. 1 month on, no snot, dry nose (I cried with joy) and all seems better. Another month on, snot is back and flies are making him unhappy so in he comes.
Back in work, looks fabulous, quite tubby and shiny but still snotty. Last week he had 4 tiny nosebleeds. Vets out yesterday to scope to check for signs of a guttural pouch infection. One side clear as a bell, the non snotty side. The other side they couldn't actually get in as there is a huge cyst that is blocking the nasal passage which is were the infection is seated. The hole between the mouth and the sinus hasn't healed and probably now never will.
He is 17 with a slightly dodgy check ligament, he is not mine, lent, and he is not insured for vets fees. So far it has cost me £3000+ and I simply don't have anymore money, I sold my youngster in April to pay the bill.
The vets are saying that he can cope with only one nostril working and the fitter and weller he is the better he will cope. Eventually the infection will eat through his bone and that will be the end but they think that may be a year off yet.
I am really struggling, my instinct says it is wrong of me to keep him going when something is so seriously not right, I am terrified I will be putting him through it for my sake only. Vets seem adamant he is ok, he does look very well, is eating and is cheerful but I'm just not feeling comfortable with the thought of putting him under pressure to get him fit.
Please could you all kindly give me some of your thoughts?
1 month on and the packing fell out, very snotty nose resumed. Back to hospital to debride hole and repack. Packing fell out 2 weeks later. Snots resumes, begins to stink after a month. Anyway, this goes on with masses of course of antibiotics all winter, sometimes the snot I'd better, sometimes it is awful.
Eventually we decide that Dr Green is the best so,union and so in April he was turned out in a huge field with lots of grass and shelter. 1 month on, no snot, dry nose (I cried with joy) and all seems better. Another month on, snot is back and flies are making him unhappy so in he comes.
Back in work, looks fabulous, quite tubby and shiny but still snotty. Last week he had 4 tiny nosebleeds. Vets out yesterday to scope to check for signs of a guttural pouch infection. One side clear as a bell, the non snotty side. The other side they couldn't actually get in as there is a huge cyst that is blocking the nasal passage which is were the infection is seated. The hole between the mouth and the sinus hasn't healed and probably now never will.
He is 17 with a slightly dodgy check ligament, he is not mine, lent, and he is not insured for vets fees. So far it has cost me £3000+ and I simply don't have anymore money, I sold my youngster in April to pay the bill.
The vets are saying that he can cope with only one nostril working and the fitter and weller he is the better he will cope. Eventually the infection will eat through his bone and that will be the end but they think that may be a year off yet.
I am really struggling, my instinct says it is wrong of me to keep him going when something is so seriously not right, I am terrified I will be putting him through it for my sake only. Vets seem adamant he is ok, he does look very well, is eating and is cheerful but I'm just not feeling comfortable with the thought of putting him under pressure to get him fit.
Please could you all kindly give me some of your thoughts?