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I am glad to hear this. I always feel that our animals have a way of letting us know when it is time to go. Your girl sounds like a fighter. The scary thing with an abcess is the body's natural instinct to form a scab. If that happens before the damaged tissue inside heals, you end up with another abcess and more infection. Daily cleaning of the wound keeps this from happening and any infection removed. Once she heals past the risk of reforming an abcess, I think home treatment will be easier. As far as the muscle damage, those wounds always look bad. But, when no vital organs, blood vesseles, nerves, or bones are involved, they will heal just fine, and this may be why she may have some muscle soreness, but not exhibiting a lot of intense pain.