| Knight's bout with a Retrobulbar Abscess |
| On November 21, 2010 our Knight came in from playing outside and acted a bit head shy when I went to pet him, this unusual behavior made me take notice, but I checked him over and could find nothing wrong. However, by morning I noticed that he had some swelling around his left eye. I figured something had stung him the previous night, |
| he didn't act as if it really bothered him much so I gave him some benedril and waited to see how it was in the morning. That night after him getting a couple of doses of the benedril in him it still didn't look any better and I thought if it wasn't any better by morning than I would take him in to see Doc Woodham. |
| Well by morning it was quite a bit worse instead of better so off we went to see Doc. He said it was a Retrobulbar Abscess, he gave Knight a sedative so we could look in his mouth as it was extremely painful for Knight to open his mouth. We could see there was swelling and redness in |
| his top jaw and also in his tonsils. Doc explained that this was usually caused by some foreign object getting caught up inside his gums, causing the jaws to swell due to a build up of puss trying to push the object out. Doc went behind the last tooth in his top left jaw and poked a hole in his jaw to help release some of the pressure, he then gave him a couple of shots of antibiotics and gave me enough of the injectable antibiotics for the next 3 days along with some Cephalexin, enough for 10 days, 750 mg. twice daily, to begin taking after the 3 days of injectable antibiotics. By the time Knight had finished his treatment he was back to being my handsome, happy boy again! |
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