Long time no see, but unfortunately this isn't a good update. She's been doing really well with a very aggressive appetite up until two weeks ago when she refused her first meal. Cleaned her cage, tried to feed her again afterwards with no success last week. I noticed a lump???? sort of???? on her neck last week, but I couldn't get any pictures of it and I thought maybe I was just seeing things from a bad angle. I checked on her yesterday to consider whether to attempt to feed her again and the lump hasn't gone down but appears to have gotten a little bigger, and she's started to act a little confused. She's not open-mouth breathing, but she does seem to have a little trouble telling up from down which is highly concerning. I called around and have a vet appointment for her for Saturday, which is the best I can do considering the holiday weekend (this kinda of thing always seems to happen at the WORST time, I swear).
The lump's also visible in pictures now, so hopefully the vet has some ideas on a treatment. I'm currently considering stomatitis as the cause, even if she doesn't appear to have the common symptoms of mouth rot. This seems like the kind of confusion I would expect from an infection, so maybe antibiotics will be enough to help.
I'll keep you all posted on how things turn out, I'm just hoping I caught it in time before things get any worse.
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