Vet visit :S

[riri]

Thoughts are with you both!
I know how scary it can be when your pets have to go it alone and all you can do is watch xx

[kiania]

Just to let folks know, Nimh is fine. Banana flavoured antibiotics (Septrin) twice a day for five days, and she's going back to the vets on monday.

They also let me bring her lump home I shall try to get a photo...it has hair on it. It is on the top of my desk, my OH just giggled and said apparently it wobbles when I type

Her wound is part sutured, part glued - looks ugly as heck, but that is because it is all raw and bare, poor lamb. She looks thinner too, but that might well be my imagination (combined with lack of food in her pouches).

Just worried that it will grow back really now

[souffle]

So glad to hear she came through the op well. Gosh it sounds like a big lump!
Wishing her lots of healing vibes and get well wishes and well done to you too for giving her the chance xx

[Lougarry]

Very glad it went OK for Nimh. Sending her lots of healing vibes xxx

[kiania]

She just lost the log bridge she had as her ceiling because she kept scratching around - and we couldn't see what she was scratching (which is on the vet's list of "DO NOT!"s ).

I feel really sorry for her, she must be bored out of her mind. No wheel, nothing that will allow any strenuous exercise. So any suggestions, I would love to hear them She already decided she hates living on newspaper, which is not entirely surprising, since she is used to a min of 17cm of megazorb and is a massive tunneler...but no megazorb allowed until monday at best

This is her current hospital bin cage set-up:


And this is her lump That is the corner of a dvd case next to it for size comparison, but it is about the same size as one of the normal type marbles.

[Lougarry]

Wow, that's a big 'un. (Reminds me of the appendix in Men Behaving Badly.)

[kiania]

It is definitely a chunky one! I'm still absolutely amazed that it wasn't visible when she was moving around. She was sitting, cleaning herself, running on her wheel, etc, and unless you turned her upside down (when it was really noticable), you couldn't tell at all. Dwarfies and their podgyness!

She is being fairly good about her antibiotics. I keep telling her it is the only time she'll ever get to taste banana. She is a bit off her food though, won't take mealworms off me at all, or sesame seeds (her second favourite). But she has dragged her mini markies dog biscuit into her bed with her, so I'm hoping she's okay. She is pooing like a champ though, which was my other thing to worry about according to my vet's instructions.

[gutterglitterxx]

So glad to hear she's doing well. xx

[Angelhamster]

Originally Posted by kiania

Just to let folks know, Nimh is fine. Banana flavoured antibiotics (Septrin) twice a day for five days, and she's going back to the vets on monday.

Really pleased for you

[kyrilliondaemon]

I'm really glad she's ok, and that is one heck of a lump...

Get well soon Nimh!