Oh god, guys, it's Milly. I found a deep soft tissue lump under her tail today. I've just been so busy with exams and just trying to pass (and not even sure about that even) and I've been less focused on playing with them and making sure they're okay. I haven't picked up Milly for a while but I did it tonight because she looked like she wiggled a little to do a poop.

It feels like it's from inside her abdomen and it feels a heck of a lot like a tumour. I'd thought it was a bit odd that she sat at the water container a bit more lately... I'm so sure it's a kidney tumour. :laughter:

It's Sunday but I'm going over to uni in the morning to see if any of the teaching vets will help me. She needs rads and mabe a biopsy. I have exams all week in the city but I'm going to call and book her for Monday night.

She's been bright and alert otherwise, nothing about her demeanour gave it away except that tonight I happened to notice her wiggle a bit.

 

Oh Milly, not you, I love you too much

Edited November 8, 200816 yr by Chrysocome

OH NO....my heart hurts for you I had a recent scare with Merlin and I though OMG he can't die.

I hope it is nothing, I hope it is something that can be treated. :laughter::grouphug:

Oh NO I sincerely hope its not as bad as you think it may be. But you, of all of us, know more about these things. Think positive and deal only with what you know for fact. Try try not to worry too much and I really hope it will all work out better than you hoped

 

:laughter:

 

Hugs Kaz

Edited November 8, 200816 yr by KAZ

Oh sweetheart. I know exactly how you feel. I just lost my most beloved boy not long ago. Nothing will help the pain. Im sorry. I cryed for the whole night and the next 2 days straight. I was completely void of tears. I tear up just thinking about him.

 

You have time to say goodbye if you need to, just appreciate her, and love her with everything you have. Remeber the good times.

Im sure it couldnt have come at a worse time. Im also struggling to pass uni - I know how hard it is.

 

Cry Cry Cry untill you cant cry any more. It will help you heal. Prepare yourself, but dont loose faith - It may not be her time yet.

 

But dont give up. She is precious- but you are more precious.

 

All our love.

Jessie and McKenzie (RIP)

Thank you guys, I'm just, I'm so But I'm so glad to have you around me that understand. :laughter: I held her and kissed her and cuddled her bawling my eyes out, and she was the same as ever, closing her eyes and fluffing out her head and just loving it. That made me cry even more It's 1am, I feel so broken. I've put her to bed again, I'm glad I caught it tonight after accidentally waking them. I'm already behind on study and the notes are now a blur to me. So much for trying to cram late tonight.

I hope I'm wrong, I really really hope I'm wrong. I shouldn't just jump to conclusions. It can be something benign or treatable. The stress of exams and sleep deprivation is just making everything so much worse.

I'm going to try to sleep and hope tomrrow is a better day. *deep breath*

Sweetheart, that is defidently the best thing to do. Have a great sleep and try not to stress yourself about it if you cant do anything about it. Im here for you to talk to.

xoxo

Awww Biggest :laughter:

I really hope your little girl is okay and its nothing serious.

Hugs, I hope your sleep is restful.

Oh... Hugs mate. I hope it's not what you think it is. Good luck

No luck this morning... the person I need to see is at the airport seeing someone off. He's told me to do the hospital thing - keep her apart and observe her. When he gets back this afternoon I'll take her in, even though he's told me we can't do any diagnostics because the clinic is closed. Even an opinion will make me feel better. But it looks like I'll have to work around exams and get her to the clinic on Monday night to get any real answers. *sigh*

No luck this morning... the person I need to see is at the airport seeing someone off. He's told me to do the hospital thing - keep her apart and observe her. When he gets back this afternoon I'll take her in, even though he's told me we can't do any diagnostics because the clinic is closed. Even an opinion will make me feel better. But it looks like I'll have to work around exams and get her to the clinic on Monday night to get any real answers. *sigh*

 

 

Good Luck tonight Chryco ...

 

Sorry to hear about Milly! I hope it isn't as bad as you suspect...

Edited November 9, 200816 yr by JimmyBanks

Oh I hate the waiting, hugs.

Let us know how it all goes!

oxoxo

Chryso, sorry to hear that. Lets hope it is nothing as vets tend to freak out heaps about their own pets. Could it maybe just be an egg?

Maybe she just has an inflamed bursa of fabricus. Or maybe an egg peritonitis. Lets think happy thoughts, like a lipoma or a benign neoplasm or an abscess.

Huggles anyway. They always get sick around exams don't they. One of my budgies decided to get quite sick with green faeces and then went off of her food altogether. I had to crop tube her for a week and she lost heaps of weight. She is on the mend now. I might get her checked out after exams. But she chose to do that during study week, the little brat.

Your babies always like to be the cutest things in the world whenever you are scared they are going to die, it makes it harder.

Still no joy, I called early but the exotic animals vet was completely booked out today. But I made an appointment for tomorrow afternoon. Milly is still playful as ever, a bit quieter but perhaps because I'm just watching more, still eating and drinking so not in an immediate danger zone.

 

My heart hurts. Her tail is bobbing more than normal. I assume it's from the weight of the mass against her abdominal air sacs. She also sneezed some blood out one nostril today. Not an alarming amount and not fresh red blood, I don't know if it's related to the mass or what. It's odd that it's one sided, you would see that with some kind of trauma. It's stopped now. I can't link this to anything. In fact I've never seen a bird get a nose bleed.

 

I've had long discussions over the past two days with another 'vet' I know well, who is working in the "chicken wing" in the laboratory/research area at uni (which I guess doesn't make him an actual vet, but he does have a veterinary degree and he works with bird diseases every day. He does the Chlamydia tests). He found the nose bleed very strange too. He's been ready with the emergency stuff for me if anthing did happen before we got to the diagnostics with a 'real' vet. He agrees that we need radiographs and a blood test to see how her kidneys and liver are going.

 

It's been a really **** day. I'm fairly sure I failed the equine exam. :sigh: I really want answers to this and to see if there's anything that can be done.

 

*waits some more*

 

Thank you everyone *hugs all*

 

EDIT

Hugs Sailorwolf, you're right, I thought about all those too. I hope it's something treatable/less scary like that. I always freak out about my babies, and it gets worse around exam time. I need diagnostics dammit. I hope yours are okay too.

Edited November 10, 200816 yr by Chrysocome

Oh mate... I'm sure you didn't fail your exam!. Hugs on still no news... Thinking of you and look forward to happy news tomorrow.

My mum always said to me during exams "Don't stress the stuff you can't change" I know it's near on impossible to do that when it's a loved pet but you have to say to yourself "She's eating and playing and there is nothing I can do until tomorrow so I need to put it out of my mind and concentrate on the stuff that needs to be done now"

 

Just before my last exams both of my kids broke bones and I had DHS checking up that I wasn't abusing my kids, exam time is a crappy time for things to go haywire

Huggles. I have to say though, they are in excellent hands.

 

My babies are doing well now. Thank you

Hopefully everyone else found the exam hard too.

Hugs, I will keep you in my thoughts through this hard time

Without sounding insensitive......

 

God grant me the ability to change the things that I can and the ability to accept the things that I cannot.

Without sounding insensitive......

 

God grant me the ability to change the things that I can and the ability to accept the things that I cannot.

 

That is so true, acceptance is the hardest part of that whole thing. I was told 2 weeks ago that my dog has cancer, I cried for a week, I have now accepted the inevitable, but I still cry when I hug her.

oh no, l'm sorry to hear of your situation

Hope that it is not serious, you are in my thoughts

Hey... how's your gorgeous girl going??? I hope all is well with her health at the moment.