Happy Whisker Kisses Day

[BorisPasha]

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Happy Whisker Kisses Day to all the hoomans and floofs at HC My hams all chose hearts based on their feelings about Valentines Day
Top to bottom, left to right we have: - Feliks, Snappy, Sparky, Veikko, Delphia

I want to give you all an update as I haven't managed to be as active as I usually am the last couple of months. It seems to be one thing after another at the moment. As I think I mentioned in my Christmas post Veikko took ill a week before Christmas with diarrhoea. We took him to the vets and got a weeks course of antibiotics which didn't help. They then gave us some medicine for parasites which didn't help either. Then we got another course of parasite medicine which we had to give him at 2 weekly intervals. In between Veikko's vet trips, and also Pasha's 1st anniversary, I discovered a lump on Feliks's 'armpit'. The vet advised to give a saline solution for a week. It didn't seem to help but the lump eventually faded and looks like scar tissue now.

Then Artie passed away and 2 days later I noticed a lump on Sparky, we took him to the vets. He had to get surgery on the 1 year anniversary of Boris going to the rainbow bridge which filled me with dread. Luckily he came through the surgery well and it turned out to be a cyst. This is a picture of my Frankenstein hamster from today. It's been 2 weeks since his surgery and he's doing very well. The cyst was very large and grew very quickly so she had to cut part of his 'onesie' away so he's looking quite thin on one side

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Just when I thought we were finally getting back to normal, Veikko had diarrhoea again on Monday, though thankfully he's been ok since and last night I discovered a lump on Snappy We are off to the vets this evening, it feels exactly like Sparky's lump so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he will recover as well as Sparky did.

So it's been a rather busy and stressful 2 months at the hamster home for ill and geriatric hamsters

I hope you're all well, hamsters and humans alike
BP x

[cypher]

Happy Whisker Kisses Day
I so love all their individual responses to Valentines with the hearts! That really made me smile

Sorry to hear you've been having more problems, it has been a rough time. Fingers crossed all goes well at the vet with Snappy, be thinking of you.
Glad Veikko is ok, that must have been worrying after it took so long for him to get well again.

[souffle]

aww Happy Valentines to your little loves. Sorry they have been having so issues but hope all will soon be recovered x

[Coco61]

Lovely heart hams BP. What a load of worry you have had in the last few weeks.
How did the vet visit go for Snappy? Fingers crossed.

[Pebbles82]

Lovely Valentine photos from a bunch of lovely brave hamsters. It has been a gruelling time and fingers crossed all recover well soon.

[mangoandmimi]

Such lovely pics! A real shame about all the problems it must be a really difficult time, fingers crossed things improve soon.

[BorisPasha]

Thank you so much to you all

Snappy had a haematoma which the vet drained for him and he was very brave about it. After she'd drained the haematoma however she noticed that the mammary tissue was slightly raised and that there were lots of little nodules on it. She thinks he may have bumped himself on something and that's what's caused the haematoma. The vet wasn't sure if the nodules were anything sinister or not and to remove mammary tissue would be a very large op for a tiny hamster. So for now it's just a wait and see if there is any change to the nodules or tissue. I hope I've managed to explain what the vet said properly. I think I understand until I have to relay the conversation