WELL!
Went in there for his ear, its got a kind of milky white discharge (not dark wax as usual with ears) and they had a look down and took a swab to look at under the microscope to see which bacteria it was so to give the appropriate treatment
They also checked his other ear and said it was a little dirty, but then said "oh, looks like he has a grass seed" I said "oh, that's odd, he's not been shaking his head and there has been no wax, but if you think so lets get it out". He then got his ear thingy and his tweezers and had a go (Dylan has had this done before last year when he had a rather large grass seed in his ear so used to it and impeccably behaved). Anyway after lots of digging around etc he decides "No, its actually just hair with wax on
) Not pleased, but hey at least no grass seed
Now for the foot. He looked, numbed the area and had a good dig around, again NOTHING and said it was most probably an infection left behind and would prescribe some pain relief (only needed because he'd dug around in there) and antibiotics
In the meantime, the results came back for the first ear and showed it was a bacterial infection, nothing serious (most probably bought on by swimming) and would prescribe some drops
Right, ok, all sorted I thought.
He then decided to have one more look into the infected ear where this time he said "oh, I can see a grass seed" OMG, again he's not been shaking his head or anything to say he had had a grass seed. He had a go at getting it out but because his ear is sore with the infection he was wriggly and so he couldn't get it
Next thing, "we have to book him in to be sedated, have his ears flushed and might as well dig around further in the lump on his foot" "would tomorrow morning suit you? that will be £350"
We are now booked in tomorrow morning at another vet for a second opinion before going ahead with any sedation. I don't see why they cannot prescribe something for his ear to make it less inflamed and then try again to get the grass seed when its calmed down and he will sit still
Not to sound like a bad mum, but the seed has clearly been in there a while as we have not walked anywhere other than the beach lately and until he got this infection (nothing to do with the grass seed) he was showing no signs of anything in his ears and it would have gone undetected (right or wrong) so surely another few days wont hurt whilst we try to get the inflammation under control
Anyway, we will see what they say tomorrow
