So Saturday morning, Kali and I are at training class and I notice her drooling. I've never EVER seen her drool before. I wrote it off thinking the string cheese was making her drool. Then DS noticed she had swelling on the left side of her face, lymph nodes perhaps?
I looked for a wound, on the outside, but found nothing. Between 9am and 11am the swelling actually got worse. So I got her into the vet. The vet looked her over but didn't want to aspirate the swelling just yet. He couldn't tell me what caused the swelling or even what he thought the problem was.
They gave Kali a shot to reduce the swelling and antibiotics. After we got home, I started thinking. The vet mentioned, its rare, but something with the salivary ducts could be the problem. I opened her mouth and peered inside. I really, really, really wish I had done this before!!
There's a long cut inside her mouth, on the lower left side, almost exactly right where cheek meets gum. It's easily an inch and a half long cut. She's on antibiotics but is there more I can do to help her?? It's not like I can get her to gargle with salt water to keep that cut clean or anything...
Susan