Well, we're back from the vet, surgery went well. They only took out his upper canines, but there's more to that story.

Apparently, there are 2 masses that they found in his mouth. One is in the upper maxillary area where the other infected teeth were. The xray of this one makes the bone look moth eaten. Not good. They are unsure at this point what it is, if it's infection that made it look like this, or if it truly is a mass.

The 2nd area is his chin. HUGE looking mass there. They showed me xrays of a normal kitty chin, and his looks nothing like it. You can't even see the two areas where the bone comes up to the front. It looks really bad. Again, they said they want to see what happens with steroids and maybe it's just an infection. I think they wanted to make me feel better, cause the vet looked very grim.

So, we are home, we have antibiotics (Clindimicin or however it's spelled), and Pred for the swelling. Sigh. Recheck in one week, to see how the Pred worked, hopefully it's just infection and the swelling will go down. The vet recheck and the next xrays are included in my bill for today. The vet is being very generous. She knows I do rescue and that I'm really strapped for cash.

On the bright side, the bill was only $245.00. but that was because they didn't take out the rest of the teeth.

Honey is in a room by himself right now. He's howling like a banshee to be let out. They said at the vet he was just really scared, and he didn't make a peep until he saw me there to pick him up. That's when he started in yowling again, lol. It was a good sign they said, lol.

So, more prayers please, he needs a lot of good to come out of this.