Inca has her Spay/Removal - Update 7/6

Lots amd lots of good luck to your girl today.

 

[crumbilina]

Poor Inca Hopefully she can find some friends that she will tolerate.

Fingers and paws crossed for the spunky girl today!

 

[lilspaz68]

she was being premedicated at 2:44 ready to go in. It's 4 pm and I still haven't heard anything. My brain is flying in a million directions and I cannot concentrate. My poor girl is going be so googly-eyed when I pick her up. :nod:

 

[Unepuce]

Good luck to you both - I'll think of you on my was to the vet....

 

[lilspaz68]

Just finished, just waiting for her wake up. Seemed to go very well though.

 

[Godmother]

Relief! Please give her lots of kisses for me. :heart: Poor sweetie must be so sad without her friend, so I hope that she can soon find another to mend her heart.

 

[lilspaz68]

Relief! Please give her lots of kisses for me. :heart: Poor sweetie must be so sad without her friend, so I hope that she can soon find another to mend her heart.

I wonder if she would like Daddy Zeus? He's doing sooo well on the heart meds, a complete reversal :joy:

 

[Godmother]

Oh, yes, a Greek man would be just the answer.

 

[lilspaz68]

Inca and I are home, much faster and smoother courtesty of kestrel09...thank you again Colleen!!!

But Inca was eating way too much of Tria's enriching foods, and was very fat inside which made for a more difficult surgery. The tumour was in an awkward place for an active 3-legged rat so the skin was kept a bit looser to allow for movement.

She is supposed to get baytril, and metacam starting tomorrow, and every 12 hours (starting at 9 pm tonight) she needs to get injectable buprenorphine injected sug-q. Unfortunately this causes the pica behaviour which is mostly fine but for rats who have big incisions not so good. She started chewing and pulling at them and causing them to bleed so poor Inca got wrapped in real vet wrap (courtesy of eagle..hehe). She is unhappy and confused as to why she cannot move around properly, but she is quiet in her cage now, NOT picking and bleeding. My poor Inca.

 

Poor girl ..lots of healing vibes coming your way.

 

[eagle]

Awe she looks good in orange. Kisses to the sweetie.

 

[lilspaz68]

tried the e-collar I had and it worked great except her stress was horrible and she was still able to chew the incision. It would work for an incision a little closer to her head, and it would stay on.

I ended up fully wrapping her, here she is drinking Ensure, but she's still a very unhappy camper with a compulsion to chew...EVERYTHING.

It is going to be a very long night. :undecided:

 

[Godmother]

:tumkiss: and lots of scritches to your dear girl as she recovers.

 

[mamarat]

Poor sweetie, sending healing vibes.

 

[kestrel9]

shoulda known you'd have the collars. Sorry for Inca's and your stress. Hope she feels better and sleeps

 

[MomRat]

Give her your paperwork with account numbers and such on it, she'll shred it up and save you the trouble! Poor thing, hope she feels better soon.

 

[victoria]

Silly girl :hugs: to both of you.

 

[Joanne]

Oh Inca, please don't chew your sutures out!!!!
Good luck staying awake! I hope she behaves herself or at least gets tired and goes to sleep for a while...

 

[M0onkist]

Aw, poor sweetie!

I have to say (to be on the positive side) that the color of the vet wrap goes nicely with her coat...

Well, one has to look on the brighter side sometimes! I hope she has a really speedy recovery and that the pica doesn't get TOO bad.

 

[lilspaz68]

Woke up this morning, Inca had gotten out of the wrap and quietly opened herself up. Just woke up and I am leaving for the vet!

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