Reopened the incision yesterday, and scared myself silly.
cleaned everything, nicked the incision open, then snipped it wider with a tiny pair of scissors...
Shoot! Out popped a sharp pointy object like a rib bone and next to it a lump of something whitish-gray and ugly d
looking.
Damns, damn, damn, I must have screwed up totally.
Wait, calm down, you've seen tatters surviving much much worse.
Take tweezers in hand to... oh no! He's starting the rolling.
He won't stop! What's that?

On the paper is a mass sized and shaped like a smallish guppy.
Cranky looks fine, slim & very cranky.

Packed wound with antibiotic ointment & set him to rest.
Mass head ąppears to be a lump of tissue enveloping a bone or splinter encased by an oblong of solid infection. Sort of a uni- guppy.
Cranky is looking great' sunning himself and giving me death looks whenever I approach the cage.
Cranky old coot.