HELP!!! What is this??

[daisyag13]

Day 18 update:

The spots on her comb have definitely gotten larger and now look like blisters. Possibly fluid filled? Not sure if this is still fowl pox or not. I don't remember them looking like this before. @coach723
See here:

And her right earlobe is swollen and has a few yellow crusty spots on it. I thought I had seen some yellow spots on it over a week ago but thought it might be some food or something, but it's definitely something else. Her left earlobe is normal- see pics to compare. (sorry the swollen one is blurry, she was SO done with me at this point )

Her breast blister looks almost healed!! I removed a few small yellow scabs that were left, and it caused a little bleeding so I went ahead and rewrapped it. I think the next time I'll be able to leave it unwrapped. The hardness that was there previously when I squeezed her skin is gone, so I think all the infection is gone. There's no swelling and the skin looks a great nice soft pink color. I forgot to get a pic though. Argh.

So on her foot, I worked at removing the pus off the bottom of her foot pad as Coach suggested. There was actually a section that was trying to separate and come off near where I was able to remove the soft layer of pus the other day. I think the soaking was finally able to get down under the pus layer and help it separate from her good skin. This layer was fairly easy to remove and all underneath was very raw good skin. It was just peeling away on it's own, and all I had to do was cut it off. Very minimal bleeding. YEA!! I was able to remove about 1/4 to 1/3 of the layer from her foot pad. So I basically have her whole heel cleaned off of pus now.
I was SO EXCITED! Finally some great progress again. See here:

There was a spot on her toe that looked swollen and turning greenish. I pierced it with the razor blade and some liquid pus came out. I squeezed it all out and sprayed with the chlorohexadine solution so it wouldn't turn into something nastier. Oh, and her nails were getting long and starting to curl, so I trimmed them with my dog nail clippers. Hopefully we're close on our way to complete pus removal and just waiting for it to heal up. I will see if she is up to handling more removal tonight, or I may try the top of her foot instead. We'll see how it looks.

 

[Bawkbok]

Happy to see things are slowly improving.

As to her comb, if it is dry pox it will clear up on it's own in a few weeks. Wet pox requires attention. Coach or someone else more experienced than me will need to direct action in that regard.

Wishing her the best - she is strong and resilient. Better days are ahead.

 

[daisyag13]

Last night I decided to go ahead and work on her foot again. The parts where I had gotten it down to raw skin the other day are already covered again with another thin layer of pus scab. I'm hoping this is the sugardine drawing out the infection from inside her foot (still massive) instead of it just creating more pus. I'm thinking this is the case bc this is what her breast blister did about 3-4 times and now it looks healed. So I worked some on the bottom of her foot, but it was really hard. It's not a flat layer and is starting to get into hills of good skin with deep pockets of pus between. So it's a lot harder to get at with the blade when it's a hard scab and trying to cut it out. Any little knick of good skin bleeds like a stuffed pig! ARGH! I worked mainly on the top of her foot instead and got about 1/3 of it cleared off before I got to a super thin layer that started to bleed a lot. Medicine, sprayed, and wrapped and called it a night.
This pic shows how the pus layer is pulling away from the good skin. I'm holding up the pus layer with the blade, and then I just cut that layer off instead of pulling it off with tweezers to minimize the bleeding.

I did manage to cut out most of a very deep valley of pus between two peaks of good skin. This pic shows the depth of where the pus was. Kinda looks like pac man.

Day 19:
This morning I worked on the bottom of her foot again. It was still very hard to get it off because of the deep pockets of pus between super thin layers that would bleed easily. So I tried my thin slicing method until I was able to get a section cleared away where I could slide the other tool (previously pictured with the round and triangle ends) under the pus layer and use it to separate it from the good skin. This was very effective and I was able to use it to dig out some really deep pockets. Some of them were up to 1/4" thick again. I think I got close to mostly clearing out the top half of her foot pad before I felt like she couldn't handle anymore.

Here's a different angle to show the depth of the pockets where the pus was. There are still some remnants left in some of the pockets, but it was bleeding a lot whenever I would try to work them out. I'll get to them next time.

Looking way better where her foot pad is mostly exposed good skin now, and it feels like we're actually making good progress now.

 

[daisyag13]

Happy to see things are slowly improving.

As to her comb, if it is dry pox it will clear up on it's own in a few weeks. Wet pox requires attention. Coach or someone else more experienced than me will need to direct action in that regard.

Wishing her the best - she is strong and resilient. Better days are ahead.

So far, I don't see any pus or sores in her mouth, so thankful for that! The mouth pus I had to deal with last time was horrible. So hoping it's just the dry form, but wanted to make sure it wasn't actually something else instead. A few more sores have popped up on her comb.