 Good news and bad news
Well, Hepburn's Ear Saga has started a new chapter as of yesterday. We went to the vet sunday to see if they could look into his ear canal all the way to the ear drum (it was swollen shut the day before). The vet said no go and gave him an injection of antibiotics, an injection of cortisone and said to continue the ear drops, pain meds and cleanings until tuesday when I should come back with an appointment because if the swelling didn't go down, he would need to be put under anesthesia to do a endoscopy of his ear as they still could not rule out a foreign body.
Tuesday (yesterday) rolls around, we are at the office and the vet says, well the swelling is down, but there is a lot of red brown discharge so we will put him under for a bit and flush his ear, as well as doing the endoscopy to see where the problem is.
He comes back and says the that the good news is that there is no foreign body in Hepburn's ear. But the bad news is that the infection is not just in the ear canal but behind the ear drum as well, which can become very serious. He prescribed him an oral antibiotic for 8 days and I have an appointment for next thursday to see him again. He wanted to insert a tube through the ear drum to drain the infection, but he said Hepburn is just too small. If the antibiotic does not clear the infection by our next appointment, they will try the tube option again (aka put him under again which I am hoping they don't have to do). If it does not work, they will have to do major surgery but he did not expand on what that might be. This would be a bad situation and both the vet and I are fighting hard to avoid it. Please keep Hepburn in your thoughts and prayers this coming weekend and next week. I can only hope the oral antibiotics clear the infection and he doesn't even have to have anesthesia again... |