injured soft shell turtle

MY soft shell turtle had a string wrapped around his leg for about 6 hours. 3 days ago i removed the string, but now his leg looks worse and it is huge and puffy, what do i do?

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Nov 02, 2010
Injured Turtle
by: Anonymous

If three days have gone by and things are not improving, I would hustle to a vet. So many things could be going wrong, it's impossible to guess from a written description. Don't leave this too long. It does sound serious.

Sorry I can't just snap out the right medical answer.

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