Day thirteen: slowly improving although it does not look like it.

We're in the full swing of treatment now. The schedule is set and really, the whole thing usually lasts only 15 min. The first day after the week off there is however some more cleaning to do and it takes a little longer. The sedation sets in quickly but starts to wear off after 30-45 min. So I do have to act somewhat swift. Plucking out the chunks and scraping of the soft plaque with a wet clot is still a little of a struggle but doable. Yesterday he had a shaking fit at the end of my ride and I let him get it out of his system. After I saw a 1 inch big chunk fly out of his ear he was done. It must have come loose and started to really irritate him. I'm glad he got it out on his own.

After the cleaning I search for the trouble areas to treat very locally as both ears are pretty raw. His left ear looks the worst as I was treating it near the tips. On the pictures it looks like his ear is swollen this is however just from the lighting. The white areas are white skin patches that are healing and the red areas are where the cream did it's job. His right ear has only been treated about half way in and the old 'plaque ridges' are gone and starting to clean up nicely. I will finish this weeks schedule as I want to completely get rid of it and I think we're getting there. I might even be able to stop after this week !! That would be a nice Christmas gift to Beamer. Not more pestering with his ears. Then we can start the New Year with clean plaque free ears, wouldn't that be nice ....

Left ear:

 

Right ear: