Bella is ok! Well, for now anyway. Since Bella's vitals were normal and she doesn't have a fever, the vet feels that she has a swollen gland or lymph node. He did put her on antibiotics as a precaution and I'm to keep a close eye on her temperature. She's eating and playing and acting her normal bubbly self. He cleaned up her incision and took out her stitches and it looks healed already. The wound is very clean even though my cell phone picture makes it look awful. After he swabbed it up it looks great. I was so worried that my baby was septic!
Thank you so much for the well wishes. I have been on conference calls all day and unable to post. And yes, I was a respiratory therapist previously. My family thinks I'm nuts when I describe something as unilateral...
Now I sell hospital EMR's so I have to keep up on some of the medical jargon.
If you guys feel my vet is mistaken, please feel free to post your thoughts. A second opinion never hurts!