Can't take credit for catching this one, a reply caught them, but adding it here for discussion.
Multi-awarded comment from six-figure karma account with hidden comment history today:
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ti6j05/comment/omsnvgw/
Seven-year-old comment they copied:
Bot, or just someone who has a lot of time on their hands to karma/award-farm?
I ordered a Birdfy feeder for my mother for Mother's Day. They were offering a Mother's Day special with delivery by the holiday. It is now the Tuesday after Mother's Day, they haven't even shipped the order, and customer service offered a pathetic 10% refund as compensation, with no indication of when they might actually ship the order.
After searching this subreddit I learned they also advertised Christmas delivery last year and failed to deliver on that promise.
Do not order directly from Birdfy for holiday gifts! I regret not ordering on Amazon, as much as I hate Bezos—at least if I'd used Amazon I wouldn't be in the doghouse with my mother.
I'll be doing a chargeback if they haven't responded within 24 hours to my suggestion that they refund me & offer a coupon code so I can reorder from Amazon at the Mother's Day sale price, but I'm leaving this here because I want it to become searchable for the next person who googles "Birdfy mother's day shipping" next year when they again offer holiday shipping and don't deliver.
This smells off to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/SantaMonica/comments/1t0bwj0/singles_release_party_in_santa_monica/
Post for an app-sponsored event in a local subreddit. OP & the positive comments are all from accounts with no history in r/SantaMonica and no comments that indicate they live in Santa Monica. All are little-used accounts a few months old, exactly the kind of accounts I'd expect to see people use/make to earn money with one of the pay-for-Reddit-comments platforms.
What think you, people who know more about current spam trends than I do?
Vet is very involved and as stumped as I am.
Reaching out to the internet to see if anyone else has ever dealt with a horse who repeatedly gets abscessed lymph nodes under the jaw with negative cultures. As in, there are no bacteria in the exudate. Not just negative for the bacteria that cause strangles, negative for any pathogen the lab tests for (which is all the significant ones, including actinomyces and the bacterium that causes pigeon fever).
This isn't really an emergency, it's only happened twice in ~3 years, but it's weird. Different nodes, not even adjacent to each other, so I don't think it's damage to a particular lymph node causing sensitivity. No foreign body found in the abscess either time, though that doesn't necessarily mean one couldn't have been there and disintegrated to the point of being undetectable by the time the abscesses drained. No fever either time.
My main concern here is just that continued recurrences, if any, could damage the sub-mandibular lymph nodes over time, and also the remote possibility that this is a symptom of some larger, systemic low-grade infection.
At this point the vet does not advise treating with antibiotics, because we have no data to tell us what drug to use or how long to treat for, so there is a risk of creating resistance if there are bacteria we haven't detected.
I have found information on this condition impossible to search for because every case report I can find is about something that was cultured from an abscess, not abscesses where nothing could be cultured.
Data points that may or may not be relevant:
- The horse has exceptionally fast-growing hair, chestnuts, and ergots, as well as very high hair density. He's one of those horses that people touch in the summer and exclaim about how soft he is, because he has a lot of fine hairs all clustered together, like rabbit fur. I have wondered if this genetic quirk is maybe linked to a tendency to also produce extra sebum, and abscesses just form more easily?
- The horse's pasture contains trees, and he does chew them (no matter how much enrichment he has, he prefers the alternative enrichment method of "causing problems on purpose") so I have considered splinters as a possible cause. However, no splinters were found in the abscesses.
- The horse has a habit of picking up any dead animal he finds in the pasture, so he does put bacteria directly into his mouth on a regular basis. I have considered the possibility that this is some strange squirrel or reptile bacterium that the lab wouldn't report as a "positive result" in a large mammal.
- Only major medical history is a rattlesnake bite, but that happened in between the two abscess incidents so tissue damage from the bite could not have been a cause of the first one.
- He has not recently traveled or been exposed to strange horses.
- No recent introductions to his herd.
- No nasal discharge or other symptoms with either abscess.