Hi Nina,
Thanks for your kind words of encouragement! Your suggestions make sense - slow and steady (growth) wins the race after all!
Thanks again Nina and Lin for the advice and reassurance
Beth
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- 25 Oct 2017, 22:25
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: White circles on shell
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15446
- 25 Oct 2017, 21:23
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: White circles on shell
- Replies: 8
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Re: White circles on shell
Hi Nina, Thanks, this is reassuring. They are mostly small circles, but looking closer, a couple look elongated and seem to be merging with the tree-ring like growth that I'm used to seeing. The rapid growth would make sense, as he's been on double rations recently in an effort to get his weight up,...
- 25 Oct 2017, 20:12
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: White circles on shell
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15446
White circles on shell
Hi everyone, You'll be please to know that after almost a year of treating Thor's face abscess, it's finally more or less healed (touch wood) AND he's finally begun to start putting on weight (hooray!). However, no sooner had I begun to breathe a sigh of relief, I spot a new thing to worry over! He'...
- 18 Apr 2017, 18:27
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Tortoise wound healing
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17907
Re: Tortoise wound healing
Update: Sorry it's taken so long to update you all. For various reasons I've not been able to get him seen before today. The vet put him on another course of antibiotics (more fortaz) for much longer this time (8-12 weeks), although he said the wound site looked quite healthy and pink. Another swab ...
- 25 Mar 2017, 10:06
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Tortoise wound healing
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17907
Re: Tortoise wound healing
Hi Elaine
Thanks for your reply, and sorry my camera is so rubbish! Yes I'll let you know what the vet says. I hope he'll be better for the summer too
Thanks
Beth
Thanks for your reply, and sorry my camera is so rubbish! Yes I'll let you know what the vet says. I hope he'll be better for the summer too
Thanks
Beth
- 22 Mar 2017, 21:44
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Tortoise wound healing
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17907
Re: Tortoise wound healing
Thanks :) The first time I was offered the options of cleaning the wound under sedation or whilst conscious. I opted for conscious as I was nervous about the risk of anaesthetic overdose as he's pretty tiny (5.5cm and 40g). I gather OD risk is around 10%. They told me a good chunk of stuff had come ...
- 22 Mar 2017, 18:23
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Tortoise wound healing
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17907
Re: Tortoise wound healing
Hi Ladies Thanks for your replies - pic attached. You can see a top scab and bottom scab around the central hole. First lot of antibiotics was 3 weeks of baytril, by mouth daily (no swab). 2nd lot was ceftazidime (Fortaz) subcutaneous injection every 3 days for 3 weeks. Swab came back positive for s...
- 21 Mar 2017, 22:48
- Forum: General Tortoise Care
- Topic: Tortoise wound healing
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17907
Tortoise wound healing
Hi everyone Thor has a ongoing problem with a wound on his face (posted aaaages ago about this on the old forum). It initially started as a suspected abscess in october 2016, was removed by the vet, and has been scabbing over ever since. He's been to the vet twice, in october and january, had the sc...