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Update on NoName the possum:

Our vet visit went well. Little guy slept the entire time, but that’s not surprising because it’s rare that he’s actually awake. He’s been here for nearly a week and I think I’ve seen him awake for a grand total of an hour. Granted I’m not awake during his prime walking hours. I think I’ll leave a camera in the room tonight to see what he gets up to.

We did a culture on his tail and ears to make sure we hit it with the best medication since they seem to only be slightly improving. I’m also interested to see if this is actually staph, because for now we’re unsure.

The vet suggested possible scabies and wanted to do a skin scrape. Her words were “I hate to do this to him, he’s going to hate me. I don’t even know if he’ll let me scrape the area” since she needed to razor scrape the already tender sores on his ears. I told her I would be surprised if he even flinched. He did flinch. Just barely though. The man made a 😬 face and then immediately passed back out. He didn’t growl or put up any sort of fight. I’m assuming the weird heavy sleep is from him being neurologic, but I definitely want to look into it further once we get these sores healed up. For right now it’s not on my list of priorities since he’s still eating, drinking, and going to the bathroom normally. It doesn’t seem to be life threatening.

I should know something convulsive from the lab by early next week if not sooner.