Eriathwens piggies

I noticed a couple of weeks ago a rather large lump in Mistys abdomen under the skin when I picked her up, when I put her down it went away, well Friday night it happened again, her abdominal pain and discomfort seems to be getting worse so she saw our vet today. She has been booked for surgery on Thursday to check for a hernia and/or adhesions to try to find the cause of whats causing her problems. Hopefully its something simple, but knowing my pigs it probably isn't 🤦‍♀️ she seems quite please with herself for pooping on his table at least 🤣

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Thankyou! I'm a bit worried as one if the possible types of hernia is a specialised surgery even in cats and dogs that they refer elsewhere as it involves a mesh implant being attached to the pelvis.. so I'm crossing everything it isnt a prepubic hernia! But we will cross that bridge when we come to it I guess. Its going to be a long week waiting for Thursday.
 
All the best for Misty’s surgery on Thursday.
A beautiful name by the way 🥰
 
Our little Misty was dropped off this morning for her surgery, we should hear how she did in the next few hours. As it took so long for her to accept the herd last time she had surgery, ive put her hospital cage inside the pen with them this time, she will get the first 24 hours in there alone to rest and heal, then ill pop her in with the herd once each day for veggies so she is able to physically interact with them at a time they won't bother her too much, hopefully that means that when it comes to go back in with them fully, the bond hasn't been broken. Fingers crossed it works because I don't think my nerves could take another attempt to bond her into the herd 😅
Shelly and Delilah are already giving it quite an inspection! I know its quite a small space but my vet said last time I took her in that its going to be a much bigger incision, pretty much top to bottom so he has room to move all her intestines etc out the way to get a proper view of the kidneys so I'm hoping to keep her as quiet as possible for a while!

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Oh gosh! that sounds like a big op for a little piggie, wishing you and Misty all the very best of outcomes x
 
Misty has done very well bless her, shes up, eating and pooping. Nothing was found, which is good news in itself, however that still leaves us no closer to figuring out why she's in pain.. but its at least not an adhesion or hernia, or anything else that would have been found while he was in there.
The plan is to let her get over this and continue her painkillers as we are, and go from there really.

 
Pleased she's eating and seems quite bright. That scar looks nice and clean.:) Sorry that you're no closer to finding out the source of her pain.
 
I'm so relieved shes doing so well, most of yesterday and this morning I was having second thoughts about the surgery to be honest. Hopefully she continues to do well and we don't have any complications like the adhesion she suffered after her spay. The herd have been really interested in her (and her treats 😅) and shes really alert and happy to engage with me when I go in to see her which is nice, she isnt groggy at all bless her.
 
MistyMoo went back to the vet today for another shot of metaclopramide to get her eating again, she had reduced gut sounds and stopped eating hay in spite of 3 hourly syringe feeds, she has a few days of oral as well but we dont think she will need all of it. She has already started to nibble hay.
The herd have been incredibly good with her, Shelly has set up camp in the corner, the furthest side from where Misty has been sitting to keep an eye on her and the rest of them have taken turns to lay on the other sides, eat next to her or bump noses through the bars, Delilah especially.
I'm going to let her rest again today so she can get enough veggies and eat in peace but I'll start putting her back with the herd for veggies tomorrow.

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She isnt too bad thanks! She passed some diarrhoea over night but that sorted itself out by morning. She still isn't eating her regular hay but she is happy to eat the treat hays we have. She's still getting 20ml of critical care every 4 hours but I'm hoping to reduce that to 6 hourly by morning if she continues to do well. All of her friends have been taking it in turns to sit with her, its currently Pumpkins turn bless her. Shelly hasn't left her side for very long either. Although Daisy hasn't bothered at all, she doesnt get on well with Misty.
Her incision is looking good and I've not seen her acting painful though which is good news!

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Eriathwen said:
She isnt too bad thanks! She passed some diarrhoea over night but that sorted itself out by morning. She still isn't eating her regular hay but she is happy to eat the treat hays we have. She's still getting 20ml of critical care every 4 hours but I'm hoping to reduce that to 6 hourly by morning if she continues to do well. All of her friends have been taking it in turns to sit with her, its currently Pumpkins turn bless her. Shelly hasn't left her side for very long either. Although Daisy hasn't bothered at all, she doesnt get on well with Misty.
Her incision is looking good and I've not seen her acting painful though which is good news!

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Aw, so glad it’s going well for Misty, sorry not been on much these last couple of days x
 
Misty got to spend some time with her friends while I cleaned out her hospital pen, she got a little overwhelmed after a while as I feared (may not have been ideal putting her in after a syringe feed, everyone else wanted some apparently lol) it seems my plan to keep her in the herd while not in the herd didnt work as well as id have liked and a proper, full rebonding will need to be done at some point, but hopefully it won't take her 3 hours to calm down like last time, she at least didn't full out attack anyone, hopefully because her used hay has been getting given to the herd to eat when she didn't want it so her smell is still throughout the whole pen.
Never mind, if you don't try, you don't know I guess! It was worth testing out for her.

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Well I'm not sure where he's got them from, the little bugger, but Olivers got static lice 🤢 luckily he is the only one, they were cleaned out today so all of them had their full health checks done.
I've just finished giving him his first ever bath, in lice and easy shampoo to sort those out, he had a lovely time bless him. He gets so happy about being clean, popcorns as soon as I start doing cage cleans and apparently enjoys a bath. He is still quite scrawny under all that hair even at 1060g! And with the weight of wet hair his back legs struggled to hold him up out of the water, but he really enjoyed being able to let the water hold his weight for him :)
The other pigs are a bit annoyed as his bath has made veggies late 🤣 which is what I should be doing just now but I need to rest my back a minute, oops!

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