Eriathwens piggies

Deep cleaned all the cages today, once I put her back into her home she started munching on her regular hay! Couldn't believe it :) she's also currently eating her veggies which she didn't do yesterday.
Shes sitting at 805g so she's maintained all day, fingers crossed she continues to gain weight over the next few days.
What's also great is its only been about 48 hours since she started her medication, it took her well over a week last time to be eating by herself, so I'm hoping this is just a blip, not a decline in her condition.

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Thistle is up to 828g today! Almost 100g since the 26th. She is eating pretty much all by herself but I'm still continuing with syringe feeds for now, just to be sure, and to get as much weight onto her as possible.
I'm not sure what they did to their bowl overnight either but Daisy seems very please with the mess they've made of it! 🤣

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Thankyou, I dont know what I'd do without them, they don't have much choice but to get better 😅
They had beetroot tonight, mainly because I'm curious how fast/slow her digestion is so I'll find out when the purple poops start 🤣 but her poops are finally normal too and as of about an hour ago she's 863g! That's heavier than she was before she even went downhill 😱

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Ive been sat having a chat with Delilah this evening too, in her little hay nest 🤣
I'd like to think she worked hard building it, but I suspect her big round bottom just flattened the area!

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Delilah sends her thanks for the compliments to her beautiful bottom 🤣🤣

Thistles done well again today, I'm am stopping the cisipride as shes been eating over 24 hours now and pooping normally, but its there if she needs it again, bless him..my vet gave me plenty of it, just in case!
Shes sat at about 850g tonight, which considering beetroot always puts on quite a bit of weight which they often don't maintain..thats not a bad drop, only 10g lighter since yesterday. With reduced critical care feeds too! Tonight's the first night I won't have to set any alarms :) I was in bed before 1am which is unheard of 🤣 I had to double check I hadn't forgotten to do anything!

I had to drop this picture here though, it really made me smile, it reminded me of how Bramble used to potter over and just stare up at me. 🥲 I even have a similar picture of Bramalam.

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Thankyou @alpacasqueak that's kind of you to say.

I meant to update sooner but I've been so tired and forgot! Thistle didn't react well to being taken off the cisipride unfortunately and went downhill again, so I've made her an appointment for this week to see what we can do. I dont think she's ready for last resorts like the oral steroids yet, I think she just needs a second motility med, or a different one, maybe something she can have 8 hourly instead of twice a day?
But she's eating relatively well and gaining weight back and is at 850g as of tonight. But she begins drooling again and stops eating when the medication is stopped :/ she does seem to breathe harder when eating, possibly related to the untreated URI she had when I first got her that left her airways quite inflamed.

But anyway, shes still bright and happy, moves around her cage and eats her readigrass and veggies bless her.

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Thankyou 🥲 I managed to get Thistle in with the vet today, and swapped her original appointment to be for Daisy on Friday.

We got not bad news..is probably the best way to describe it. Basically they have a locum now who works on Mondays who is the vet for the local safari park and an exotics specialist, I had a nose at his qualifications and tbh if anyones going to figure out what's going on with her and make her better, it seems he's the dude! Of course it's not going to be cheap doing all the diagnostics but I cant sit and watch her continue to decline and do nothing, so that's not great but it is what it is. Anyone wanting to buy a kidney? 🤣
For now she is still on cisipride, she can come off the baytril and she will see this new vet on Monday.

Fingers crossed!
 
Merab's Slave said:
That sounds hopeful.
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It does, doesn't it. I think I've figured out a way of being able to afford to hopefully just say to test her for everything, do whatever it takes to make her better so fingers crossed. I need to remember to get a rough estimate on Friday when I'm in with Daisy, just in case I need to raise any more. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, it's been such a struggle and I'd almost given up hope of making her better but I'm excited for her.
 
Percy and Pepper are sending healing vibes Thistles way.
 
Daisy and Misty visited the vet today, poor Misty started peeing blood yesterday so I immediately started her on the antibiotics I have here which fingers crossed seems to have stopped the blood, my vet couldn't feel a stone in her bladder but it was painful (although to be fair, she also just likes to scream at people who pick her up 🤦‍♀️) she can have a high dose of baytril for 10 days to hopefully clear it up. If not shes to go in for an xray, which isn't ideal with all Thistles diagnostics needing to be done also, on top of Christmas but it is what it is. They will all get what they need.

Daisy has been slightly painful and hormonal some days so went in for a check up. She's had paracetamol added to her pain management and her tumour seems to have grown a few mm. Her mammary lumps have also grown and she's had some hormonal episodes so it's possible when her ligament snapped when she was spayed, it took some ovary cells with it. But she seems to have settled for now.
Apparently the fact she is even still alive is incredible, bless her she's doing so well. She hasn't begun to lose weight or anything either.

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