#mochi the #catstr is now showing signs of the damage of him bitiing his tonge 3 days ago
very often just after he finishes eating, he is licking licking and then goes to gag and sometimes vomits some of his stomach contents
i feel so super bad for being the main reason why it happened, i clamped on his jaw trying to feed him a tablet and he bit his tongue
a bump in the road, i guess, but i still feel bad about it
day after tomorrow he is due for his evaluation of his progress at the vet, hopefully all teh signs are good and it's only this swelling in his tongue from the injury that is keeping him in a bad state
takes about 5 days for tongues to heal up... i know this because i'm a qualified body piercer, and after about 24 hours from the piercing the tongue swells up like 2x the size for about 5 days
so it feels like a setback because one of the purposes of the treatment was to reduce his gum swelling, which was causing him to poke his tongue out
and now his tongue is big so it's back where it was
it's not quite the same, but itlooks the same
i was totally unprepared for any idea of how to subdue him to enable safe adminsitration of the medicines
i did ask the vet if i could just leave him there, but he sorta brushed that away
i learned the lessons now so i'll probably do ok at completing the treatment, most likely just another 4 days and the tongue will stop being swollen and all the other things will be ok
it's horrible when you hurt the ones you love in a tense situation where you have to push them to take the medicine
yeah, the tablet, dermipred actually he takes it quite well, i think it's even meaty flavored
i just got too nervous and clamped his mouth while he had his tongue stuck out as i was trying to give it to him, and now he has a swollen tongue.
the liquid tho, Zodon it's called, i think is an anti-inflammatory like ... i forget the name, given to babies, something gel, bejsomething... basically acetaminophen (paracetamol) in a tincture with some glycerine to allow it to transdermally absorb and treat the inflammation at the site
but the way the syringe works you end up squirting it in there and half of it splashes back out
so between those two horrible formats of administration i screwed up and clamped his jaw onto his tongue and now he has a fat tongue
i had a tongue piercing a long time ago, and i remember, it was like 5 days or so, my tongue was not normal at all, so i guess it's gonna be the same for him, more or less
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