Eriathwens piggies

Forgot to post this yesterday 😂 Daisy was so annoyed with how late I was with veggies! Her spay is tomorrow, I'm starting to get a little anxious about it, but I'm sure it will be fine!
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Thistle decided grass isn't her thing, she had no idea what to do with it..
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But she has been doing some very nice sharing with Ebony 🙂
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Well good news and bad news, the good news is she is awake, survived the surgery ☺ and hopefully by now, eating..If she was refusing to I'd imagine they would have phoned back?
The bad news is as he was tying off one of her ovaries, it snapped, causing bleeding. But it seemed to have stopped..they're keeping her in until quite late to keep an eye on her, and we need to watch her closely over the next 5 days. She's the worst one for it to happen to because she is so bouncy and rarely still, I'm hoping she will stay calm enough not to cause herself any trouble.

But she did indeed have cysts on both ovaries, so whatever happens I can at least know I made the right decision, best to spay her now while she's young and fit than wait for symptoms to get worse and for her to be older.
 
We're home! She's bright, considering. But we need to watch for signs of internal bleeding over the next few days. And we need to keep her calm..so that'll be fun! Luckily the bigger blood vessels had been tied off before the ligament snapped so it's not ideal, but could have been much worse.

She ate every single morsel of food I sent with her..which was a lot 😂 I'm just waiting for her pellets to soak so I can mix her a bowl of critical care and pellets but she seems happy enough bless her.

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It's been a rough 24 hours but we're almost back on track I think. She stopped eating pretty much as soon as she got home, even after being a good girl and eating all the lunch she took to the vets! Then came the diarrhoea, hunching, gas and pain. As today has gone on though she's perked right up and is say we're currently 80/20 her feeding herself/syringe feeds which is great, and her poops are almost back to normal.
So far no signs of any bleeding, although she has decided she wants to excessively clean her wound so I've had to keep a close eye on that. She has her first check up at 11.30 tomorrow morning.
She's currently napping after eating most of her veggies and a nice pile of oat hay :)

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Well done Daisy, I hope you go from strength to strength now and get back to your normal self very quickly. Xx
Hugs to your slave, sick piggies are such a worry, you do such an amazing job with yours, they are so lucky to have you. Xx
 
Thankyou both, and thats so kind of you to say Piggyminder! I'm so lucky I can revolve my days around them, I don't know what id do without them :) Even if they are rather hard work bless them.
 
Thankyou! Leonard is a lovely boy, never fails to put a smile on my face bless him :)

Daisy had her first post op check, they're happy with how she's doing. Apparently she spent the whole time she was there squeaking and talking away to them all which sounds just like her 😂 she also refused to use the lovely warm bed they made her, until they moved her hay into it..She wanted to sleep on the hay lol again, sounds exactly like her!
Her incision is looking good and she's otherwise all good, eating well and her poops are pretty much normal now.
 
It wouldn't be Daisy if she didn't cause a bit more trouble 😂 the little terror has been bothering her incision. I've sprayed some leucillin on it for now, but will see what the vet wants us to do in the morning! I'm sure it's a mix of it being irritating and her being bored. She's in a small, very bare cage while the risk of bleeding passes so she has nothing to entertain her but food bless her, which for such a...spirited 😅 piggy, is probably incredibly dull.

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Thankyou. Little monster has made it even worse over night so we're taking her back to see the nurse at 4. Hopefully they'll have suggestions of how we can keep her away from it.

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Well the ideas were good but unfortunately didn't work 😂 she got out of both their gauze bandage and my sock bandage as soon as her feet touched the floor. She's a ferret in disguise..Misty, Leonard and Delilah all left their incisions alone! Typical of Daisy, I was expecting it but was hopeful I'd be wrong, apparently I know her too well..
 
Thankfully upping Daisys pain medication seems to have done the trick and it's healing quite nicely now. She is also out of the woods regarding internal bleeding risk.

Leonard is continuing to put on muscle and condition, I think he was 1111g last weigh in? He is so solid feeling it's great! When he was down in the 900's he felt so frail and fragile, I was worried it was the beginning of the downward slope of muscle wasting that OD pigs get. He has a slightly water eye, no redness, soreness, squinting, ulcerations or anything..It's odd. The drops we usually use are doing nothing so he will need to pop to the vets to see what's going on with that. Hopefully it's nothing or something easily fixed bless him.

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I'm relying on it healing from the inside out at this point. Hopefully some point soon it will just be healed enough for it not to pull, itch or hurt and she'll leave the last bit alone. I've got some silver cream coming which should help the dry bits be less irritating to her. I'm hopeful being back with the herd will take her mind off it if she gets the green light for it on Thursday at her check up.
 
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