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Health / Bump/cut on toe?? Chinchilla biopsy?
« on: August 13, 2015, 07:25:06 PM »
Hi, I adopted Phoebe about 2 and a half weeks ago. The previous owners had the cage put together wrong I think and she had been walking on a wire bottom.. Also... she's a chinchilla and a complete SPAZ who bounces around like crazy! I don't know how she does it! haha
Anyway, She cut her foot the day I adopted her, right before I got there. At the time it just looked like a cut, it was NOT this big. It looked to get bigger so I got the Heal X cream and started putting that on a couple times a day. It didn't get smaller and it was starting to get a head on it like it was ready to burst so I took her to the Exotic Animal Vet. She popped it and also took off the little bit of scab that was on the top to try to release the fluid, but said it looked a little more solid than she had thought it was. Some fluid did come out, but now it is just a bump. It has been almost a week on the pain/inflammation and antibiotic meds as well as the soaking the dr prescribed. Meloxicam, Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole and Chlorhexidine gluconate 2%solution (w/ water)
Has anyone seen this before? I'm afraid it's not going to go down in the next week.
The option after that would be to have it biopsied to find out if it's cancerous or not
Does anyone have an estimate of how much that would cost? (No vet insurance)
Would it possibly be better to just have the toe amputated?
Thanks
Anyway, She cut her foot the day I adopted her, right before I got there. At the time it just looked like a cut, it was NOT this big. It looked to get bigger so I got the Heal X cream and started putting that on a couple times a day. It didn't get smaller and it was starting to get a head on it like it was ready to burst so I took her to the Exotic Animal Vet. She popped it and also took off the little bit of scab that was on the top to try to release the fluid, but said it looked a little more solid than she had thought it was. Some fluid did come out, but now it is just a bump. It has been almost a week on the pain/inflammation and antibiotic meds as well as the soaking the dr prescribed. Meloxicam, Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole and Chlorhexidine gluconate 2%solution (w/ water)
Has anyone seen this before? I'm afraid it's not going to go down in the next week.
The option after that would be to have it biopsied to find out if it's cancerous or not
Does anyone have an estimate of how much that would cost? (No vet insurance)Would it possibly be better to just have the toe amputated?
Thanks
thanks!