Urgent Care :: Abscess Removal

[CrossKnight]

Wow, I understand your situation and give you all my support in wishing your turtle a healthy recovery!!

Please update us, cause I'm worried sick for you and your turtle >_<

[SeeYouInICU]

Thanks--the scar has completely healed and I think it's pretty safe to say that he really didn't need the antibiotics. I can't even tell where the abscess was anymore. A complete recovery. Thanks for all your support.

[SpotsMama]

I'm very happy for you and your turtle! Here's hoping you spend the next 60 years together!

[SeeYouInICU]

And here I thought the life expectancy is 30 years! On that note, he was essentially neglected for 3 years or so (not by me!) until I decided it was high time to provide him with a proper habitat/nutrition about a month ago. Although he has no health problems right now, his carpace is only about 4 inches long. How will this impact his life expectancy?

[SpotsMama]

I don't know. He may grow to normal size or he may not. Just keep taking care of him and feed him a good diet and time will tell.

[megcornell]

SeeYouInICU,
I get the feeling that you think that your ability to drop words like "subcutaneous" to describe the abscess makes you more qualified than a "lay" person. And I might add that while I was not insulting you, your follow up posts have seemed laced with ego to me. Congratulations on being born into a family with a doctor. That doesn't make you or your father a veterinarian. When either of you completes the eight years of schooling it takes to become a vet (as I am doing right now), let me know, then I'll consider you able to remove an abscess. And while your turtle's health is not on the same scale as a human's, that doesn't mean you should do basement surgeries regardless of how able you seem to think you are. Medical school and vet school are not the same, so do not assume that removing something from a human is equal to surgery on a turtle. And do not go around complaining how little your father makes for such procedures in order to illustrate how rudimentary the procedure is.

[zero_tails]

congratulations on the recovery SeeYouInICU! im glad to here ur turt is good. post up some pictures will you?

[marisa]

OK, before a war of words starts here...

SeeYouInICU, every member on this forum is glad that your turtle is recovering so nicely, no one more than me.

I just want to say, though, that you need to be a little more careful about how you say things. To me, there was a gloating tone to your updates after your turtle had the procedure without having had to go to a herp vet and didn't need antibiotics (but you did indicate he had them during the procedure), and a touch of sarcasm in your responses to member's posts expressing concern over him not being taken to a herp vet. Your turtle was lucky, lucky that your father is a medical practioner (not that your father got lucky in lancing the abcess) who had experience with such procedures, albeit, not on turtles.

No one knows how his past care is going to impact on his life span or health. Give him the best habitat and diet you can to insure that he lives as long as possible.

megcornell, I can understand your reaction to what you read, but I don't think anything constructive is going to come about by prolonging the discussion.

This would be a good time, I think, to close this topic.