Farletta finally came home but was skinny an terrible looking. The pic below is a couple weeks after she came home. You can see she is still thin and ribby from her illness. I had no idea Farletta's ERU could cause such pain and suffering for her. She almost died from the resulting colic. I am very scared now -- what if she has another flare-up? Can she have bute if she does flare-up? Will she be at risk for colic each time she has an episode? A very thin but alive Farletta
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I have been entering these posts almost a year after they occurred (it is January 2011 now) so if dates are off, that's why.
Farletta has been in her new home on a night time turn out schedule for a couple weeks now. She is still receiving her daily bute and her eye looks better. Then things went from bad to worse: Farletta became very ill one afternoon. She went from seeming a bit uncomfortable to laying down and unwilling to get up in a matter of a few hours. Her breathing became distressed and her condition rapidly deteriorated. Dr. Dolan came out and discovered she was severely impacted. I took her to Michigan State (MSU) that same evening. The doctors at MSU found a rock-hard impaction which caused her colon to be stretched several inches beyond it's normal location. She had become quite bloated during the 1.5 hour trip to MSU and was very miserable. I feared for her life. Surgery was not an option for us so Farletta stayed on at the hospital for 24 hour care which included IV fluids and fluids delivered via a stomach tube. She was walked every two hours and kept on pain killers. On the third day Farletta finally passed feces again and she was sent home on the fourth day. The vets believed the colic was due to stress and pain caused by the ERU flare-up and possibly aggravated by the daily bute dosage. |
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