Reporting about Leon's ear affliction: It's an infection

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Exhausted and pissed off after the vet session. Still eat his extra treats tho

I just came back from the vet. After i told him on the phone what was going on, he gave me his earliest appointment and we spent quite a lot of time there, mostly focusing on his ears.

First, i have something to admit about taking him to the vet: I hate doing it. It's not because he behaves badly or anything, but being put in a carrier is a traumatic event for him, full stop. The only times he's been put inside one has been either to take him to the vet for heavily exploratory appointments or for being taken to a new house where through the next three weeks he'd be submitted to harsh noises.

And when i say it's traumatic for him, i mean it: He cries, pees on himself and tries desesperately to open the carrier. It breaks my heart. Always.

On to the diagnostic, it was clear for the vet after a light exploration: Ear infection, and going deeper revealed supuration and some bleeding, it had developed inside his right ear and was starting to develop in the left. His ears were throughly washed, cleaned and i have to put some drops into each ear every night and morning for the next two weeks.

Now i'm wondering if there's some behavior i could have noticed before it became obvious. Maybe he was sleeping too much on his left side because the right ear was starting to hurt? Maybe he was a bit more irritated than usual? I think i should stop overthinking...

Well, once we were back from the appointment and i opened the carrier, he ran straight to the living room with my parents and plopped there besides grandma. I gave him (and all the other floofs, but he got extra) treats and just left him rest there. Karma and Houdi are orbiting around him, and Bruno was excited to see him back. It melts my heart to see the other floofs worry about the grumpy old dragon 😭😭😭