Eriathwens piggies

Thankyou all, she was as good as gold getting her bum bath, she was dryer than she was this morning and while I was drying her she could reach around to her back end to groom herself so hopefully the incontinence, or at least most of the wet hair created by it, will improve over the next few days. Such a brave little sausage. She wasn't too thrilled about being dried, but being short haired she's never met the hair dryer before 😅

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Betsy said:
That look says it all really! 😂
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She does make me laugh bless her 😅

I was going to say I'm glad she's forgiven me, but she did it to herself the silly sod! That hasn't stopped me being very annoyed with myself for not catching her, but luckily we seem to have got away with it. In over 20 years I've never dropped one or not been able to catch one that's jumped, I'm just relieved I was crouching and not stood up.
 
These pigs, I swear.. I just went up to find Silver trailing a load of hay around. Where he walks in circles he's got himself a little tangled up, luckily I found him before he cut off the blood supply!

I was hoping for a less stressful day today, but apparently not.
Hazel is pouring out urine again bless her, but still bright in herself. I of course forgot I'd given them red cabbage yesterday, so the pink urine this morning freaked me out! Several tests later however shows no blood, so just dyed from the cabbage, my poor heart 😢 she is at least enjoying her baths, I just wish she didn't need them.

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Oh piggies, please give your slave a break! Glad she’s at least not stressing (you) out with the baths. Hope she’s better soon.
 
Eriathwen said:
I've had a hell of a morning! Last night I was cleaning some poop off of Hazel's back foot in the bathroom, as I crouched down to dry her off she jumped off my lap and belly flopped the hard flooring. She seemed ok at the time but I gave her metacam and kept an eye on her for a bit before going to bed anyway.
I got up early this morning as Ebony had her 3rd cartrophen injection at 9:20, when I looked in I could tell Hazel wasn't doing too well, checking her over she was still able to walk but was covered in urine so got them both into carriers and headed to the vet for when they opened. She was admitted while Ebony got her injection to wait for her emergency appointment at 10:15.

Seems nothings broken, just some inflammation around the lower spine which is effecting the nerves to her bladder. Confinement and metacam for a while, fingers crossed she's back to normal pretty quickly. I'll have to wash and dry her 2-3 times a day as the bladder overflow is constant, but other than that, shes happy as Larry, eating and pooping, walking and running around, shes just a little stiff looking.

I knew things were going too well lately!

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Poor girl, hope she’s ok soon.
 
So the red urine got worse as the night went on, a couple of the negative urine tests did turn positive over about 6 hours but I tried not to worry as they were void after 60 seconds.
Until the early hours when she started to pass clots, there's no way it isnt blood at this point so back to the vet. She's on a high dose of baytril in the hopes it's a UTI and we can get it under control. She's currently quite dry, it seems whenever he expresses her bladder she is a lot cleaner for some hours after. If this doesn't resolve, he will have to show me how to do that for her, it was sounding like we're looking at possible euthenasia if she doesn't regain bladder control but if I can express it for her it seems like she would be OK? As long as she isnt suffering I'm not about to start putting pigs to sleep because they require some extra care, especially seeing as this was my fault! But we'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it, for now she's medicated, 15ml of critical care better off and nibbling on her hay in her bed.

She is a little bit hunched up though which normally I wouldn't be happy about but I do wonder if shes uncomfortable, whether she's getting a little feeling back in her bladder. Fingers crossed!

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Thankyou, it's very frustrating there isn't anything I can actually do to help, I'm absolutely useless at waiting.. I prefer being able to proactively DO something. But other than make sure she's clean and dry, fed, takes her meds and stays confined so she can rest and the inflammation can go down, I'm at a bit of a loss with nerve damage 😕
 
Do you think the clots might be bruising from the fall? Just a thought x Hope she’s feeling better soon and the meds do the trick 🤞
 
Bill & Ted said:
Do you think the clots might be bruising from the fall? Just a thought x Hope she’s feeling better soon and the meds do the trick 🤞
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As there's very little to no blood in the urine in the cage it seems its sitting there congealing as she can't push it out as it'd be thicker than the urine it's not just coming out as she walks around, then when I turn her over to wash and dry her, gravity and being rubbed does its thing and forces it out. I'm hoping that's all it is, it makes sense anyway.

I need to keep remembering it's only been a couple of days, it feels like forever.
 
Shes finally stopped looking sorry for herself, her eyes just looked sad..I'm sure you know what I mean. We've been working on her aversion to the hair dryer and she's bone dry for the first time in days, hopefully I can keep her that way by gently helping her pass urine throughout the day. Although I'm sure first thing in the morning she will still be quite wet.
All in all, shes eating well and seems happy in herself, she's got her spark back and while she's cooperative, she will give me a good headbut from time to time while she's getting syringe fed 😅

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If I remember right (it was a bit of a blur, I usually don't panic about things but this was a bit of an exception!) At her vet appointments it was mentioned that it could take upwards of 6 weeks to heal, and the longer it took for improvements to start, the longer it would take to heal, so.. I'm quietly confident in 6 weeks time we could put this behind us as just a bad memory, fingers crossed. It hasn't even been a week yet so I'm just trying to be patient and focus on what I can do in the present to keep her happy and comfortable. It's a shame though having her confined because it's obvious her mum and Finley miss her, theyre always at the bars talking to her. It's hard to know how confined she's meant to be, too, her confined space is about the same size as a pet store cage a lot of people consider adequate to live in..I'm not sure if that's too big or what. I suppose next time I'm in I'll have to ask.

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Hopefully, the metacam was advised for 10 days so I'm assuming that's how long it'd take the inflammation to go down, if the confinement was just for that, then she should be OK to go back after that point.
 
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