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Mischief has a FORL
Mischief wrote:
Dang it, Now I'm starting to finally know what its like when I do dental cleanings and find a tooth that needs to come out and the owner tells me "But they NEVER seemed to be in any pain!!!" Last November I 'catnapped' Mischief for her yearly exam.....and during her exam, Dr. C found a tooth that looked suspicious. He said it might need to come out. I've been keeping an eye on it, so to speak. Even with my employee discount, and my credit card debt and bills to pay, a dental/x-rays/extraction is a little out of my league. Well, this past week, I just started a second job. And I've been doing more home pet care for clients. I'm currently helping a lady give Sub-cutaneous fluids to an 18 year old cat three times a week. This extra income might just be enough to take care of Mischief. Cause I checked her mouth tonight, and her suspicious tooth is clearly a FORL Known as a Feline Oral Resorptive Lesion, aka a cavity.... They usually start as a neck lesion, or a red patch at the gumline. They usually will eat away at the tooth root and they tend to be VERY painful. I've taken dental x-rays of teeth looking like this and tend to look at pictures of teeth with the roots completely eaten away. Yet i know from experience and from the classroom that animals are EXPERTS at hiding pain. If they don't eat, they die, so they will keep eating through any pain. In Mischief's case, that's a certainty, and if I wasn't a vet tech, I would NEVER have noticed. She has still been the GLUTTON she is, scarfing down her food and even hurking it up again on the carpet. Now I KNOW how expert they are and can now completely know how the clients feel. I don't really have the money, yet, but in the past week or so I've made enough to help cover it. It sucks, cause it's all the newly earned spare cash I've earned that I was gonna put in the bank. But I know these are painful and I can't bear to have MIschief be in pain. But she is acting like there's NOTHING wrong. She is still flopping over on my desk begging for attention. She could have a major toothache when she eats, yet she STILL is scarfing down her food like nothing is wrong. This is the SAME little minx that helped herself to my chicken sandwich the other day........ I have the next few days off and then back to work on Friday to work a double shift. Ten hours at the vet clinic and then the night shift at the new job. (I'm working dispatch for a security company) I'm gonna call and see if I can squeeze in Mischief on Friday for a dental cleaning and extraction. That also means pre-anesthetic bloodwork, which I might need to do the same day. Oh she's gonna LOVE this....... Since I know the tooth needs to come out, I'm gonna try to not have to do dental x-rays. But as I tell my clients, "We never really know until we get in there and can take a real good look. On the flip side, as an RVT, I'm allowed to extract teeth. So not only will I probably going to be putting in her IV catheter, giving her drugs, and cleaning her teeth but i'll probably be pulling out the bad tooth. And THEN i'll have to give her anti-biotics and pain meds. Oh she's gonna be SOOOOO mad at me..... Please purrs for her tooth. And pray that there's no more than ONE tooth that needs to come out. And purrs for my bank account too. Kristi Purrs for Mischief on the way. Sam, supervised by Mistletoe |
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I was CATNAPPED!
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:54:42 -0800, Mischief wrote:
Meowmie CATNAPPED me and put in the big box! How CRUEL of her!! Then she took me.......to TED!!! And when I came out of the box there was this man with glasses and he looked in my mouth. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH MY MOUTH!! My jaw just occasionally hurts when I eat but I just eat on the other side. DUH! Then Meowmie stuck a needle in my neck. THAT HURT!!!!! I just don't know what gets into Meowmie sometimes.... HMPH! ********* I have the day off, but I still brought in Mischief to have Dr. C look at her tooth. Yep, he agrees that it has to come out. So I took her blood for pre-anesthetic tests and even though she cried in the car, she held still while I took her blood and now is sprawled out on my desk again. So on Friday she's gonna be put BACK into the carrier without breakfast and brought into work. Hopefully the schedule won't be too packed and we can fit her in. Also since i have to go to my night job after work, I'm debating on whether to leave her overnight or not. I'm pretty sure she will be ok, but usually when we do dentals late in the day the animal isn't fully awake so we keep them overnight. And since I'll be out, I won't be able to keep an eye on her. Ah we shall see. Mischief is pretty resilient. Man she is gonna HATE me this weekend. Kristi Sending feel good purrs for Mischief. MLB |
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Mischief has a FORL
Mischief wrote:
Please purrs for her tooth. And pray that there's no more than ONE tooth that needs to come out. And purrs for my bank account too. Purrs a-coming! -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. |
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I was CATNAPPED!
purrs that it will go smoothly with minimal hard feelings. I'll be
taking in three of mine in this month, two for dentals and Furby to finish up her shots. They already told me that Little Bit will probably lose a tooth, and Spotty needs a cleaning. On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:54:42 -0800 (PST), Mischief wrote: Meowmie CATNAPPED me and put in the big box! How CRUEL of her!! Then she took me.......to TED!!! And when I came out of the box there was this man with glasses and he looked in my mouth. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH MY MOUTH!! My jaw just occasionally hurts when I eat but I just eat on the other side. DUH! Then Meowmie stuck a needle in my neck. THAT HURT!!!!! I just don't know what gets into Meowmie sometimes.... HMPH! ********* I have the day off, but I still brought in Mischief to have Dr. C look at her tooth. Yep, he agrees that it has to come out. So I took her blood for pre-anesthetic tests and even though she cried in the car, she held still while I took her blood and now is sprawled out on my desk again. So on Friday she's gonna be put BACK into the carrier without breakfast and brought into work. Hopefully the schedule won't be too packed and we can fit her in. Also since i have to go to my night job after work, I'm debating on whether to leave her overnight or not. I'm pretty sure she will be ok, but usually when we do dentals late in the day the animal isn't fully awake so we keep them overnight. And since I'll be out, I won't be able to keep an eye on her. Ah we shall see. Mischief is pretty resilient. Man she is gonna HATE me this weekend. Kristi -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit, Spot, Princess and Furby with loving memories of Rocky (RB) video clips at http://tinyurl.com/29o8ck photos at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8 |
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Mischief has a FORL
Mischief wrote:
Dang it, Now I'm starting to finally know what its like when I do dental cleanings and find a tooth that needs to come out and the owner tells me "But they NEVER seemed to be in any pain!!!" Last November I 'catnapped' Mischief for her yearly exam.....and during her exam, Dr. C found a tooth that looked suspicious. He said it might need to come out. I've been keeping an eye on it, so to speak. Even with my employee discount, and my credit card debt and bills to pay, a dental/x-rays/extraction is a little out of my league. snip Please purrs for her tooth. And pray that there's no more than ONE tooth that needs to come out. And purrs for my bank account too. Kristi Lots of purrs for Mischief and hugs for you, Kristi, Polonca and Soncek |
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