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Sylvie's spay

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Sylvie had her spay today and is looking pretty good. She's come home, is eating and moving well. No need for CC at this time. She is on meloxicam.

They did the surgery from her back and has two little incisions over both hips instead of her belly. Considering the complications I've experienced from belly spays, this might be revolutionary! Have you seen this method before? Like keyhole surgery for guinea pigs.

I am cautiously optimistic that this will be an easy recovery, but will of course keep a close eye on her. As Jack and her tend to be pretty kinky, I feel it's in her best interest to not be with him right now. Won't be for any longer than I feel is necessary.
 

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Wishing Syvie a speedy recovery, never seen this procedure carried out that way, must be new x
 
Kanga had both ovaries removed in March and she had two incisions, one on each side, much the same as your little pig. When the vet was talking me through the surgery she said she hoped to be able to do it that way as it meant the wounds would both be away from the Piggy Palace floor and less likely to pick up an infection.
Kanga scraped all her stitches out though, so ended up having glue 'stitches' instead. She healed beautifully well and never showed any signs of infection.
 
2 of my sows had this procedure and bounced back remarkably quickly from it.
Hope she continues to do well.
 
baleofhay said:
Sylvie had her spay today and is looking pretty good. She's come home, is eating and moving well. No need for CC at this time. She is on meloxicam.

They did the surgery from her back and has two little incisions over both hips instead of her belly. Considering the complications I've experienced from belly spays, this might be revolutionary! Have you seen this method before? Like keyhole surgery for guinea pigs.

I am cautiously optimistic that this will be an easy recovery, but will of course keep a close eye on her. As Jack and her tend to be pretty kinky, I feel it's in her best interest to not be with him right now. Won't be for any longer than I feel is necessary.
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Hi!

Glad that she is doing so well.

Keyhole surgery from the back to remove just the ovarian cysts is becoming more common as it is a lot less invasive and recovery rates are much better. A full spay is still needed when something is going wrong with the womb, though.

I hope that she will just bounce back. Please brace for the fact that she may be a bit more uncomfortable by tomorrow as that is what I call 'hangover day' - the day when the operation drugs have worn out but the healing process has not yet set in (this should happen by day 2-3 and you should see a fast and full improvement by then).
 
Hi guys. Rough night, but Sylvie is still with me. When my pigs have surgery I get up at intervals in the night to check on them. Early this morning she was floppy and lethargic and I actually thought she had died. She then kind of "woke" and has been active since. I held her close to my body under rugs to bring up her body temperature and cc'd her. She's become very uncooperative and I've put her back with another warming pad and rugs. I think she got too cold during the night, however, she was in her fleece bag and had a warming pad available to her. I don't know why these weren't effective. I am waiting for vet to open so I can take her down as though she looks very bright and active right now, she gave me a hell of a shock. Thank god I made the decision to get up in the night as I might very well have lost her, unless she was just in a drugged sleep. I have taken a couple days off to nurse her anyway and that was obviously the right move.

Her stitches look great on another note. Thanks for that info.
 
Vet checked her over and she looks fine now. Hopefully anesthetic will be out of her system soon as was probably the culprit. Brought her home and she's since been chilling all arvo but is maintaining temperature and eating by herself. Will be careful tonight. Didn't need that bit of panic.
 
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