violet976
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I will do an easy full body check in a bit. I just got him to take his clavamox and some ensure. I wanted to at least get one of his abs into him and figured the ensure would do the trick. Then I'll give him his baytril in a few hours. He seems to *want* to eat, but, to me at least, it looks like he takes a few bites and has to catch his breath, and kind of gives up after that. I'm assuming he needs easier to eat things right now, so I'm making him some oatmeal and hoped the ensure might help him out.
His eyes are a bit dull. He normally has big, bright, alert eyes, but they've been looking more tired, understandably, since this started friday. His fur is beginning to show a bit of poofing, again, gradual since Friday night. He still makes it up and down the cage to get into his hammock or get his water, but perhaps I should be re-arranging the cage to keep him from moving so much... I don't know there. He can get around, it just looks like he has to catch his breath terribly each time.
I didn't think I saw bluish extremities, but I'll definitely give that a second look. & I haven't seen any panicked movements around the cage, just a need to be less mobile and occasionally put his head in an upright position. Mostly, just very rabid breathing and trying to conserve energy, I think.
Do you think an oxygen chamber is a better diagnostic than lasix? I figured the stress of the trip back to the vet was a bad idea at this point, hoping to only have to do that to him if I was pretty sure I had to let him go. I hate the idea of putting him through it if the same diagnosis can be gained at home, or if there is nothing really expected to be gained at this point by having him examined again.
His eyes are a bit dull. He normally has big, bright, alert eyes, but they've been looking more tired, understandably, since this started friday. His fur is beginning to show a bit of poofing, again, gradual since Friday night. He still makes it up and down the cage to get into his hammock or get his water, but perhaps I should be re-arranging the cage to keep him from moving so much... I don't know there. He can get around, it just looks like he has to catch his breath terribly each time.
I didn't think I saw bluish extremities, but I'll definitely give that a second look. & I haven't seen any panicked movements around the cage, just a need to be less mobile and occasionally put his head in an upright position. Mostly, just very rabid breathing and trying to conserve energy, I think.
Do you think an oxygen chamber is a better diagnostic than lasix? I figured the stress of the trip back to the vet was a bad idea at this point, hoping to only have to do that to him if I was pretty sure I had to let him go. I hate the idea of putting him through it if the same diagnosis can be gained at home, or if there is nothing really expected to be gained at this point by having him examined again.
