Some good news (Patreon)

If you watched the video you can probably tell this little one is already starting to feel better!

After having him a week and a half and seeing no improvement I decided to start digging to see if I could find any opossum rehabbers who may have seen this before. I was finally able to talk to a few people who confirmed that this was DSN (dermal septic necrosis) which is caused by a flesh eating bacteria. Luckily, one of the people I spoke to is a go-to source for many opossum rehabs and she was able to tell me exactly what antibiotics were needed to help him. After speaking to her I made another vet appointment so I could pick up the medications I didn’t have on hand.

Once at the clinic our vet let me know the culture for the ick that was on his ears and tail finally came back. Turns out he does not have staph at all and she confirmed that DSN did seem to be the cause of his necrosis.

Currently little guy is on three different antibiotics, but is already showing signs of improvement. This is huge for him because this had started spreading to his hands as well and I was getting really nervous that we were going to have a long battle.

Now that he seems to be improving I’d like to find him a name, anything coming to mind?