Hey piggy people, I just got home from having to go to the emergency vet. We were gone for five hours, so it's a far ways away and it's a snowy day. My sister drove, blessed her heart. So, Reese's Bear, she's whooped, so she snoozing right there, had to go. So, as you guys know earlier in the week, she went to the vet because she had pus down at her bottom insizer and we were doing antibiotics in MedaCamp. And then a couple days ago, she had a lump on her jaw and then the lump turned to going down her neck and getting huge, so an abscess. So, we went to the emergency vet to see about getting it drained because it was putting a lot of pressure on her neck and her jaw. So, they did a really thorough exam and it's so hard because you can't go in with them and you're going to a place that you're not super familiar with and you don't know the vet staff. But the lady that we dealt with was super thorough and extremely kind on the phone and she did a really great work up of Reese and unfortunately, just like my vet was thinking, she believes that Reese has dental disease. So, what that means is there's problems with the roots of her teeth and what she has is probably a tooth root abscess meaning that her tooth obviously is rotting out, causing the abscess. So, the abscess is like in her jaw and down her neck. So, she said with this it's really difficult with guinea pigs because the pus is super thick and it gets like encapsulated into this, I don't know, kind of sack that's really hard for any antibiotics to penetrate through and their pus is so thick that it's like it can get destroyed from the antibiotics, it's horrible. So, the only option for guinea pigs is to get it drained and you want to do surgery to remove the entire sack that is containing the pus and she said this is really difficult with it being a tooth root abscess like in her jaw area. She said there's been some pigs who have had the surgery but it's pretty intense and they haven't made it through the surgery or haven't made it through the post-op or if they do make it through it's never ending struggles of more abscess is happening or more teeth rotting out or teeth have to be removed and not growing back or their jaw alignment getting messed up. So, the prognosis for having dental disease is super grim. She said if you're to go through with the surgery you're probably you know there's a chance that she's not going to make it but if you do go through and she does make it there's a huge chance that you're going to have to go back in again because another abscess can form that she's going to have to have dental work done for the rest of her life if she can make it through. She said it's going to be super super hard on Reese to have all this stuff done and always being put out and operated on. So, I think, sorry, I just scared the pigs. I think the kindest thing is that going to be saying goodbye to Reese because there's nothing I can do to fix it. I can relieve some of it maybe but she said I can just get worse and really painful for them to eat and you know that getting pigs if they're not sleeping they're eating and if anything happens with the alignment of their teeth they can't eat properly. So, I'm going to take a little bit of time here to think about it but I don't think it's going to be good guys and I just crushed sweetest pig so sweet and all I ever want to do is just help them and fix their problem and I don't really have a solution for her and then you have to think if I put her through the surgery like that's right on her jaw and down her neck and what if she can't even eat right after and just it all sounds horrible. So, I really have to think about what's best for Reese. So, they were able to drain some of the abscess tonight like right in her neck area and it feels like they got a very decent amount out thankfully. So, in the morning because it's really late at night right now in the morning I'm going to see if I can see where they opened it and see if I can get more out in the morning, do hot compresses to try to get stuff out. I'll see I don't know if I'll be able to but anything just to keep the pressure off and then I'm going to have to make some hard choices about what's to happen next. So, not all, not the update. I'm sure anybody wanted to hear. I will talk to you guys later. Bye bye. If you like watching guinea pig videos, learning how to care for us, seeing product halls or reviews or really anything else guinea pig, please subscribe and make sure you hit that notification bell so you never miss a video. Down below I've left two more videos for you to pick from. So, keep on watching.