Abscess Nose

[Maggie Cummings]

This is Abscess Nose. I was looking thru my pictures and came across these and thought you might be interested in seeing them. I treated this guy for months with Vet visits and antibiotics and soaking and steroid nose drops. I got rid of the abscess but couldn't ever cure the swelling his face had. I doubt any of you could recognize the species as his face is so distorted...well maybe

I tube fed him with Critical Care for 3 months before he started eating, and still he just ate a little bit...

Even tho he was sick as all h*** and didn't eat he was a real sweetheart...

So he is going to spend the rest of his life with a distorted face, he is eating and active and the last I saw of him he was acting totally normal...
This is Abscess Nose...

 

[RV's mom]

ouch Maggie! Poor thing!! thankfully he had YOU to make sure he made it through having a face full of nasty. good job!

teri

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Rough, I am glad he is doing good.

 

[RianSeeking]

Poor fellow. And also a lucky fellow. Where does he live now?

 

[Maggie Cummings]

After I turn them back into the rescue in Calif I don't know where they go...

 

[egyptiandan]

Easy enough to figure out what he is

Was the nose ever opened up? With that kind of infection there is usually cheesey material, just like an ear infection, filling up the nasal cavity.

Danny

 

[Isa]

Poor tortoise, he is very lucky that he had you to take care of little him

 

[Yvonne G]

Danny:

From what I remember of the story (really bad short term memory), they didn't actually cut the skin, but were able to pull out the pus and keep it cleaned out with a syringe.

 

[Maggie Cummings]

He was on Baytril, a steroid nose drop and I sucked out the pus several times a day until there was no more. This face picture was taken after all the pus was out and his nose was clear...