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poor poor buff again :( think he time has come :(

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I feel so sorry for you. What a horrible decision for you to have to make. It sounds like the best thing for poor Buff though. I will be thinking of you tomorrow. Big hugs
 
its such a hard thing to decide has he is still eating and drinking but he is in pain he is fluffed up and has lost a lot of weight, he has gone very boney on his backend, little sweetie he has just come upto the bars to me for a fuss.

am i doing the right thing at this time? or sould i wait a little longer?before he is PTS? he is on metacam, but the other thing that worries me is if the stone blocks the tube!

i know he is in pain but he is still eating and drinking?
 
Hi, i dont know if this is any help or not but when my boy had bladder probs, he was eating and drinking the whole time, he was totally himself, but he kept losing weight and keep sqeaking whilst peeing.

On the night when i made a decision based on how much i loved him and did not want him to suffer, he squeaked constantly for about an hour and half, when i got him to the emergency vet his bladder had filled and it wouldnt release, if i hadnt taken him to the vet, i presume he would have died a painful death by his bladder getting poisoned when it burst, i decided that i could not let the chance of this happen when i was at work and him to suffer for hours only to die at the end of it.

The vet offered to put a needle into his belly and let the urine release but i decided that enough was enough.

You will know what is the right thing at the time i am sure, and the vet will probably advise you?

I really feel for you at the moment, its such a horrible time, and all you want to do is enjoy the time with your baby. :(
 
Is he fairly active Claire? Does he seem tired/weak at all? Is he peeing 'ok'?

I see the dilemma and I would hate to be in your shoes, I do feel so much for you. There are huge things to consider whichever way you look at it, I won't write it out for you as I know you know exactly what I mean.

Has an x-ray confirmed the location and size of the stones?
 
clairelove said:
its such a hard thing to decide has he is still eating and drinking but he is in pain he is fluffed up and has lost a lot of weight, he has gone very boney on his backend, little sweetie he has just come upto the bars to me for a fuss.

am i doing the right thing at this time? or sould i wait a little longer?before he is PTS? he is on metacam, but the other thing that worries me is if the stone blocks the tube!

i know he is in pain but he is still eating and drinking?
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I had to make the same decision with my Minx - it was balancing her considerable pain with her will to live after it became clear that we just couldn't get on top of the remaining infection/inflammation of the bladder after her second op. For me the deciding point was when the fifth (and last) possible combination of meds started failing and the only way was down into a slow, very painful death that would pull her down little by little.
It was probably the hardest and most heartbreaking decision I ever had to make; and despite knowing that I had done the right thing at the right time, I couldn't help but feeling guilty for a long time as Minx was still wanting to live despite the growing pain.

Nobody can make that decision but you, as only you can judge when the right time for Bluff has come and how much pain you can bear for him to be in.
 
hi laura:)p is isnt active anymore just sits their all fluffed up and is crying when he wees, he hasnt been the vets, but i noticed 1 week ago he seemed a little off but tried to think nothing of it, but i started to give him pain meds 3 days ago metacam and i just know its the stones again, but its affected him a lot more than last time.

I think i have just been trying to think its not happeneing again:0 but his overall condition has detereated, and he has started to get the ragdoll feeling too.
 
From your last post, Claire..................I would go back to the start of this thread and go with what you explained in your first post.

It is hard when they do make an effort and they do keep brightening up every once in a while, but personally, going on what you have just said, I would prefer to let him go before anything major does happen. Let him slip away now while his pain is less than it would be, as it does sound like he is simply continuing to get worse.

(I don't say these words lightly Claire at all, I have uttered them once this week already for the first time and find it so hard to know when to say them, but your last post led to my views in this post. I understand whichever way you go with this but I think you will know very soon anyway what the "best" thing to do for Buff is.)

Thinking of you and Buff. xx
 
oh claire I'm so sorry to hear about Buff. I know that it's going to be a hard decision for you when you think his time has come, you nursed him so well before to get him through his operation and its such a shame this has happened again.
Thinking of you at this tough time xx
 
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From your last post, Claire..................I would go back to the start of this thread and go with what you explained in your first post.

It is hard when they do make an effort and they do keep brightening up every once in a while, but personally, going on what you have just said, I would prefer to let him go before anything major does happen. Let him slip away now while his pain is less than it would be, as it does sound like he is simply continuing to get worse.

(I don't say these words lightly Claire at all, I have uttered them once this week already for the first time and find it so hard to know when to say them, but your last post led to my views in this post. I understand whichever way you go with this but I think you will know very soon anyway what the "best" thing to do for Buff is.)

Thinking of you and Buff. xx
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I can only agree with Laura - the pain is not going to be less and will drag him under even if he won't get a blocked urethra and the agony of that. Buff's body language says that he is not well at all and in real discomfort. It is such a horrible decision to make that it is easy to just try and wait it out that little bit longer...

BIG HUG
 
I agree too love, not that i know anything, just from my own experience and reading other peoples situations on here, bladder stones are a lot more common than i thought, and so heartbreaking, most times it appears they seem to come back in one way or another.

My Peppy had lost that much weight i knew he would not survive another op even though he had recovered amazingly well from the first one.

All i can tell you is you will have learnt loads from this and will never forget him x>>

He really is a beautiful boy, such a sad thing :(
 
thank you all, its horrid to think he was locked in a shed for almost 4yrs never been on grass, been used for breeding and was left weeing blood and with stones for mths before he came to me, he while here has gainned a friend=baby buff(who was going to be poss snake food) been on the lawn loads, had loads of freah veg, pain free once he was over the op to remove the stones,clean cage, toys, warmth, other guineas around him, and most of all cuddles and love.. all this in 3mths, it sure seems like a whole life time crammed in 3 mths just over
 
aww that is really really heartbreaking, the thought of any pigs anywhere having to suffer bladder stone pain kills me.

Thank god you got him in time to make his life worthwile, bless you x
 
And those three months totally eclipse his previous four years.

He lives in the here and now, Claire. His life, is in the here and now. 3 months of a great 'here and now' counts for a lot, in piggie terms. Don't forget that. xx
 
Have only just caught up with your post Claire, I'm so sorry to hear little buff is suffering again. You are in our thoughts at this difficult time. xx
 
aaaaaaaaw claire i hope things work out for you and buff.

what a great person you are tho giving buff a better life thats lovely :)) I'm sure buff will be eternally grateful to you xx
 
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