[Gpdd] [Health] - So Confused
Julia Porter
tabithaporter at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 25 16:22:24 EDT 2004
Many thanks to everyone who has got in touch with me about Iolanthe's lump. Unfortunately, the responses have left me confused and upset - we went to the vet last night, and he asked me if I'd had the results from the tests done on Timothy's lumps. He went on to tell me that they had been abcesses and were related to a condition that would have meant he would have had abcesses all down his lypmh nodes. All the e-mails I have received have told me that abcesses need NEVER be cut out, rather lanced and drained, and now I am feeling guilty all over again and responsible for Timothy's death. The reason the vet cut them out was because he thought the lumps were tumours.
I do trust my vet, but now am left wondering why he couldn't tell the difference between an abcess and a tumour, but then, as a layman, I don't know how you tell the difference in the first place. He's the only vet I've ever found that is interested in pigs, indeed he has 4 of his own, so am reluctant to go anywhere else. But now I'm left again with a sense of guilt over Timothy.
On a slightly happier note, Iolanthe has been prescribed a course of Baytril and then we've got to go back to the vet in a week's time, but I'm scared the Baytril doesn't work and he then wants to cut it out. I just can't stand the thought of losing another baby so soon after losing my beautiful boy.
Thanks again for all those who have got in touch with me
Julia & the Guinea Girls
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