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Old November 21st, 2009, 02:10 AM
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Change of plan. A few hours after returning from the vet, I noticed that the swelling in the throat area was no worse, maybe even a bit better but around the corner of his mouth was now swollen too. I was wondering, could it be a tooth abscess forming or did both the vet and I miss something? I decided to take another look in his mouth myself to see if I could find anything. Laid him down on his side, head flat on the floor and opened his mouth. His tongue fell over towards the floor and BINGO! There was something embedded under it. Examining him while in an upright position wasn't moving his tongue out of the way and neither the vet or I had tried to do that since the problem seemed to be the throat. So I called the vet, they said bring him back right away and leave him to be sedated and have "it" extracted. This is what they pulled out!

No wonder the poor guy was feeling bad and didn't want to eat. This thing was buried completely under his tongue with only the very tip visible when his tongue was out of the way.
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