Posted By: Suggieluvin
Medical Advise/Suggestions PLEASE!!!!!! - 06/07/08 06:21 PM
Let me start by saying, I'm sorry if I ramble, don't spell well, & forget some things, its been a LONG, horrible morning!!!! I JUST NOW got home from the vets (going since 4:30 AM)
Where to start.......
At about 4:30AM, my husband heard the cats acting funny and went to check it out. He then comes back and wakes me. He said (trying to keep his cool for me), "Honey, wake up, something has happened to Lola." I asked him if it was bad and he said yes. I went in and he had found her out of the cage, on the floor, unable to move her back legs. So we scooped her up, grabbed the other pouch and brought Leelan (the daddy, her hubby) and her 2, 1 month old (OOP) joeys with us and went straight to the emergency vet.
They took her back, then the vet came back with her about 15 min. later (by the way, other than not being able to move from about the waist down, she acted fine, she drank water and you would have never known anything was wrong, until she tried to walk and had to drag herself, she had NO marks or wounds on her~~ We don't know if she fell or the cats batted at her, we have NO CLUE, there were no other signs of anything!!!!!) and off the bat the vet says, she cannot feel any pain at all and I said, isn't that REALLY BAD, and he replied, the worst news you can get. I then asked him if he had done x-rays and he said no, I wanted to talk to you about this. And then basically was insinuating (spelling ?) that there was no use and said the only thing to do was to put her to sleep.
So knowing, this may be true, but that I didn't like the vet anyways, I asked him if it would matter to wait and get my vet to x ray her or should I do it now, and he said it wouldn't matter. I told him either way she was going to be seen by my vet regaurdless and I was not putting her down right now. And then I asked him if he thought it would be ok for her to go back with her family and he said yes.
So we left and I had to wait for my vet to open. She did 2 x rays and didn't see any broken or fractured bones. She told me that things didn't look good for her but we could try giving her some time and meds. She said that with the x-ray not showing anything, that still didn't mean that a disc could have slipped and severed her spinal cord???
So I will have to pull her from her joeys and start her on meds. The meds are Burprenex, chloramphenicol, and metacam. She also showed me how the try and "milk" her bladder as we have not seen her go to the bathroom?
So all and all things look really bad, but all I can do is try!!!! If anyone has ever had any kind of experience with anything similar to this, any advise or what ever would be great!
Thanks, Ryan
Oh, and prayers would be great for my little baby Lola too!!! I think we will need a mirical!
PS~ we found out how she got out of the cage, its a suncoast tpye cage and there was a small gap from the back of the cage to the pull out grate and tray! PLEASE zip tie you grates to the back of the cage so it cannot move or be jarred at all!! Its was a small gap, but she found it.
Where to start.......
At about 4:30AM, my husband heard the cats acting funny and went to check it out. He then comes back and wakes me. He said (trying to keep his cool for me), "Honey, wake up, something has happened to Lola." I asked him if it was bad and he said yes. I went in and he had found her out of the cage, on the floor, unable to move her back legs. So we scooped her up, grabbed the other pouch and brought Leelan (the daddy, her hubby) and her 2, 1 month old (OOP) joeys with us and went straight to the emergency vet.
They took her back, then the vet came back with her about 15 min. later (by the way, other than not being able to move from about the waist down, she acted fine, she drank water and you would have never known anything was wrong, until she tried to walk and had to drag herself, she had NO marks or wounds on her~~ We don't know if she fell or the cats batted at her, we have NO CLUE, there were no other signs of anything!!!!!) and off the bat the vet says, she cannot feel any pain at all and I said, isn't that REALLY BAD, and he replied, the worst news you can get. I then asked him if he had done x-rays and he said no, I wanted to talk to you about this. And then basically was insinuating (spelling ?) that there was no use and said the only thing to do was to put her to sleep.
So knowing, this may be true, but that I didn't like the vet anyways, I asked him if it would matter to wait and get my vet to x ray her or should I do it now, and he said it wouldn't matter. I told him either way she was going to be seen by my vet regaurdless and I was not putting her down right now. And then I asked him if he thought it would be ok for her to go back with her family and he said yes.
So we left and I had to wait for my vet to open. She did 2 x rays and didn't see any broken or fractured bones. She told me that things didn't look good for her but we could try giving her some time and meds. She said that with the x-ray not showing anything, that still didn't mean that a disc could have slipped and severed her spinal cord???
So I will have to pull her from her joeys and start her on meds. The meds are Burprenex, chloramphenicol, and metacam. She also showed me how the try and "milk" her bladder as we have not seen her go to the bathroom?
So all and all things look really bad, but all I can do is try!!!! If anyone has ever had any kind of experience with anything similar to this, any advise or what ever would be great!
Thanks, Ryan
Oh, and prayers would be great for my little baby Lola too!!! I think we will need a mirical!
PS~ we found out how she got out of the cage, its a suncoast tpye cage and there was a small gap from the back of the cage to the pull out grate and tray! PLEASE zip tie you grates to the back of the cage so it cannot move or be jarred at all!! Its was a small gap, but she found it.