Posted By: Charlie H
Chloe On The Road To Recovery - 09/20/06 12:04 PM
Chloe came to us several weeks ago with the help from several in the glider community. She had self mutilated and only had a stub of a tail with the bone protruding. But the worst part was that she had mutilated her cloaca area to the point we did not know if she could be saved. She could not have a BM by her self and had to be expressed each morning and night. The colon and uretha tube had been dislocated inside her. Blood was caked all over the lower part of her body and mixed with feces made her look even more hopeless.
We started working with her. Her flesh was so infirm that the vet could not even operate on her tail because it would not hold stitches. Even after we got her in condition so that she could be operated on the vets were afraid to attempt repairing her cloaca area. We consulted with and saw a total of six vets. Finally we came up with a plan and Monday finally had major surgery. The rest of the tail was removed and the rectum was repaired. The colon and uretha tube was re-connected.
Against our policy for the first time we allowed one of our gliders to stay at the clinic over night. Chloe seems to have survived the surgery with flying colors. We picked her up form the vet yesterday around 4 PM. She is still groggy but I think she is going to do ok.
She is in an e collar and will be on pain meds and antibiotics for a couple of weeks. I hope everything goes well from here. This operation will be a major break through for saving these little self mutilators.
I am attaching a picture of Chloe that was taken the day before the operation. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/heartpump.gif" alt="" />
Charlie H
We started working with her. Her flesh was so infirm that the vet could not even operate on her tail because it would not hold stitches. Even after we got her in condition so that she could be operated on the vets were afraid to attempt repairing her cloaca area. We consulted with and saw a total of six vets. Finally we came up with a plan and Monday finally had major surgery. The rest of the tail was removed and the rectum was repaired. The colon and uretha tube was re-connected.
Against our policy for the first time we allowed one of our gliders to stay at the clinic over night. Chloe seems to have survived the surgery with flying colors. We picked her up form the vet yesterday around 4 PM. She is still groggy but I think she is going to do ok.
She is in an e collar and will be on pain meds and antibiotics for a couple of weeks. I hope everything goes well from here. This operation will be a major break through for saving these little self mutilators.
I am attaching a picture of Chloe that was taken the day before the operation. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/heartpump.gif" alt="" />
Charlie H