  Well Molly & I are having a hard time again. She wasn't eating right 
& it seemed as though she had something stuck in her mouth. She kept 
making funny motions with her mouth & putting her head back. Plus I 
have noticed that her urine is pinkish/reddish in color, so I thought 
she definitely had better get to the vets on Tue. Well, Dr. Hall, our 
regular vet, is off on Tues. & I really thought she needed to go, so I 
took her in anyway. Well the dtr. who saw her did not make me happy. 
He seemed like he was afraid of her almost. He asked if she bit! I 
told him if you stick your fingers in her mouth, she might! He really 
wasn't very good at all. So he said he thought she just needed some 
antibiotics & fluids & sent her home. Well, she was worse on Wed. so I 
called & said I had to see Dr. Hall that day. So I had to take the day 
off work & take her out. He examined her good & said he thought 
perhaps she had scratched the back of her throat with a piece of hay. 
But then he kept staring at her for a minute & was starting to freak 
me out! He said he thought her one eye looked a little bulgy, & I was 
like, no way, cause the day before I thought it looked a little bulgy 
too, but thought it was just my imagination. So anyway, after checking 
her some more & thoroughly examining her teeth (which he said were 
absolutely perfect) he said she has an abscess growing inside her 
mouth behind her jaw that is pushing on her eye & jawbone. But he also 
had to deal with the pee thing too, & said that of course the 
possibility of a stone is highly likely. So I had him x-ray her, 
because I just couldn't stand not knowing for sure if she had a stone. 
Well the good news is no stone! But he thinks she has a UTI. Problem 
is, the antibiotics they use to treat the abscess & the ones they use 
to treat the UTI are different & you can't use them both at the same 
time. So he said it's more important to treat the abscess first, 
because it's keeping her from eating right. So she gets 14 days of 
trimethoprimsulfa & then I guess will go on Baytril for the UTI. So a 
couple questions:
  First, about how long does it take for an abscess to heal with 
antibiotics? He said he's seen one or 2 other piggies lately with 
abscesses & the antibiotics worked & cleared them up. But, they 
weren't in the piggies mouths. 
  Second, I was checking Peter Gurney's website about cystitis & it 
said about barley water. Has anyone tried this & how do I make it? 
Just boil barley? Also, as far as cranberry juice goes, can it just be 
regular cranberry juice, or does it have to be the kind from the 
health food store with no sugar? Also, what the heck is couch grass?! 
  Please keep my sweetie in your prayers, she is going thru a hard 
time right now. Thanks!


~Jaime, Molly, Radar, Grumpy Carl, & Albert always in our hearts~
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