Sorry for not having made a post since may, its been busy around here. Lots of overtime on ken and a lot of trips to the vet, ect. Ok, Dexter's status; he is just as he was before. Not much better, the cyst or protrusion on the side of his face had started to slowly get worse, in his case bigger. I finally chewed the vet out to do something about it. He had taken all his antibiotics and then some. We had waited like he said to. Well, I ended up making an emergency run to the vet because we noticed that it was starting to get so big that it was pulling some of his skin/scale away from his mouth. It looked excruciatingly painful. I was fed up, the very next morning I rushed him to the vet. He took and stuck it with a syringe and pulled out what looked like this orange/whiteish/redish pussy stuff. I was shocked. He said from what I could understand that it was some sort of infection. So we left Dexter at the vet, because he wanted to lance it and clean it out all the way and put some medacine in there.
And 2 more types of antibiotics. He also wanted me to pull open his cut on his face and squirt meds in there every day?! Then pry his mouth open and force him meds again every day.
I tried to talk to him about Dexters quality of life. He couldn't give me a straight answer. He said that Dexter looks better than the other bearded dragons that he see's. So he will be fine. I was PISSED! I'm sorry but when you see nothing but dragons in the shape or worse shape than dexter how do you even know what a healthy one looks like anymore? I don't think he does. We are just worried that we are doing nothing but making his suffering last longer and longer and longer. I know our intentions are good. I know they are, and money is not of concern. He is a family member to us.
BUT, we were talking earlier today. We feel that even though both of our other babies (Meathead, and Cory) are in perfect health, we do not have enough experience to care for Dexter any longer. We need someone whom has more experience than us to care for him. We know a lot of you on here have 10 + years experience on us. So, we are going to put him up for adoption. It's not that we don't love him or have the money to take care of him. We do, its just getting very emotionally stressful caring for him. I myself do not know what else to do. I am going to post an ad in the for free section explaining all the details.
I just want everyone to know that we love Dexter with all our hearts, both Ken and I have cried taking him to the vet. He has been through 8 different doses of medications now and I don't believe that our vet is the best vet for him, nor us the best parents for him either. We are no where near experienced as some of the amazing people on this website.
Thank You,
Erika & Ken