RobbiesMom
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Hi all
Well... I don't even know where to begin but since I don't have a lot of time... Since June our Vet and I have been concerned about Robbie's mouth. It was clearly time for a dental but since his asthma is so bad in the summer we decided to wait - he was looked at carefully and nothing looked TOO bad - our Vet did caution that it's hard to see EVERYTHING when doing a mouth exam in the office (and not doing the full dental thing under anesthesia) but I was OK with that- around the end of August his breath started getting pretty bad... told the Vet when we had the other cat in for a problem and he said "lets get him in for a dental" . Well our other cat ended up getting a flea (the dog) and going nuts on herself and chewed her stomach hair and skin up so she had 2 visits to the vet and some meds and so I kind of put Robbie's teeth off ($$$) for a bit he was doing OK with his blood glucose numbers - not great but some good days and plus my life has been on full throttle with stuff as some of you know. So in August he started drooling a bit now and then - I put it off to the fact that the cisapride seemed to bother his tummy sometimes and got his juices going maybe... seemed logical. Than about 2 weeks ago he started drooling more and more by Sunday it was disgusting - drool ALL over the place and all of a sudden he seemed sick. Made an appt for Tuesday and took him in - Vet says he has a small beginning of an infection on one tooth and his breath is horrible so he wants to get in there asap. We scheduled the procedure for today and I just got off the phone with the Vet - it was worse than any of us expected. The tooth he could see was just slightly beginning to have a tarter issue and some infection but the TWO teeth behind it were rotted just about totally with the back one basically hanging by a thread. GOD I feel like a horrible person and our Vet was pretty mad at himself too - said he shouldn't have worried so much about the asthma, he knows better when teeth are potentially an issue but his other teeth are all GREAT (and now he's confirmed that said the other teeth are in very good shape). He took a small sample of the tissue from under one of the bad teeth to have it checked JUST in case because he feels this got so bad so fast he wants to make sure there isn't a growth under them (please pray there isnt). I'm sort of in shock... the bill didn't help - almost $800 but the vet said to pay it off over 4 months or whatever we need so that's the plan - Robbie was a champ rested comfortably and than just woke up and started screaming so they called me and David went and picked him up. He's home now and seems fine. The Vet said to watch his numbers carefully cause this might really improve his diabetes situation. Anyway, I've gotta run we have a Nor'easter bearing down on us and I want to get out of work early. Thanks for any input on what to expect after this etc. Thank you all as always you are just a wonderful group of people.
Well... I don't even know where to begin but since I don't have a lot of time... Since June our Vet and I have been concerned about Robbie's mouth. It was clearly time for a dental but since his asthma is so bad in the summer we decided to wait - he was looked at carefully and nothing looked TOO bad - our Vet did caution that it's hard to see EVERYTHING when doing a mouth exam in the office (and not doing the full dental thing under anesthesia) but I was OK with that- around the end of August his breath started getting pretty bad... told the Vet when we had the other cat in for a problem and he said "lets get him in for a dental" . Well our other cat ended up getting a flea (the dog) and going nuts on herself and chewed her stomach hair and skin up so she had 2 visits to the vet and some meds and so I kind of put Robbie's teeth off ($$$) for a bit he was doing OK with his blood glucose numbers - not great but some good days and plus my life has been on full throttle with stuff as some of you know. So in August he started drooling a bit now and then - I put it off to the fact that the cisapride seemed to bother his tummy sometimes and got his juices going maybe... seemed logical. Than about 2 weeks ago he started drooling more and more by Sunday it was disgusting - drool ALL over the place and all of a sudden he seemed sick. Made an appt for Tuesday and took him in - Vet says he has a small beginning of an infection on one tooth and his breath is horrible so he wants to get in there asap. We scheduled the procedure for today and I just got off the phone with the Vet - it was worse than any of us expected. The tooth he could see was just slightly beginning to have a tarter issue and some infection but the TWO teeth behind it were rotted just about totally with the back one basically hanging by a thread. GOD I feel like a horrible person and our Vet was pretty mad at himself too - said he shouldn't have worried so much about the asthma, he knows better when teeth are potentially an issue but his other teeth are all GREAT (and now he's confirmed that said the other teeth are in very good shape). He took a small sample of the tissue from under one of the bad teeth to have it checked JUST in case because he feels this got so bad so fast he wants to make sure there isn't a growth under them (please pray there isnt). I'm sort of in shock... the bill didn't help - almost $800 but the vet said to pay it off over 4 months or whatever we need so that's the plan - Robbie was a champ rested comfortably and than just woke up and started screaming so they called me and David went and picked him up. He's home now and seems fine. The Vet said to watch his numbers carefully cause this might really improve his diabetes situation. Anyway, I've gotta run we have a Nor'easter bearing down on us and I want to get out of work early. Thanks for any input on what to expect after this etc. Thank you all as always you are just a wonderful group of people.
