Dillon UPDATE

Dillon has had a bump on his head for about 6 weeks now. He went under the fence (without my knowledge) and came in the pen with me while I fed the big bucks. I never heard a whimper out of him so it is tough to say if one of the bucks butted him or not. He had started shaking his head about that long ago. I looked in his ears to see if maybe he had an infection. They were both clean as a whistle. I let things go for another wee of so. About three weeks later, I noticed the hair on his head sort of standing up a bit. I felt it and he sort of winced and shook his head. That was when I assumed he might have actually gotten butted but I still didn’t know. I thought maybe it was just bruised, maybe he ran into something while he was playing with Festus it would just go away in a few days.

At the end of that next week it still hadn’t gone away . He was still shaking his head and it seemed to get larger. I took him to the vet and they put him on some antibiotics that would get into the bone, thinking the bone was actually bruised and then maybe infected. He took those pills for two weeks without change other then it now seemed to get larger and smaller from day to day as well as shift from one side to the other.

Friday I took him once again to the vet. I had an appointment in the closest office (St. Marys) and was the last to be seen. The vet looked at him and his ears and tried to feel ANYTHING…nothing. He decided we should take X-Rays. I then had to drive to Celina (home office) and was the last to be seen there. He took three X-Rays and you could actually see whatever it was on the top of his head. Of the two vets there, neither could determine what it was. The bump looks like it is making his forehead about an inch higher than it should be just behind his eyes. They both decided to give him STRONGER antibiotics than he had the last time and take them for three weeks.

He is going to be starting the second week tomorrow. The bump seemed to be smaller this morning but I can’t really tell. He squirms around when you want to hug him or whips you with his tail when you just try to pet him. That tail could put an eye out! It is just hard to tell if after this first week there is any difference at all. Neither one of the vets were willing to rule out a tumor. A Tumor is what I suspected last week when we went and I am always thinking the worst, that is just my personality I guess, sometimes I’m a living walking Eeyore.

Here is a terrible picture of his head (my cell takes horrid pictures)



On a good note though, he came to me weighing 12 to 18 pounds, 3 1/2 months later he is weighing in at 65 and that’s roughly 8 months old.