November 22, 200915 yr [ as interesting as that is i wish you had of warned about the horrible picture lol i did learn a lot though just from that bit of info thanks :celebrate: their edited lol Edited November 22, 200915 yr by GenericBlue
November 22, 200915 yr as interesting as that is i wish you had of warned about the horrible picture lol i did learn a lot though just from that bit of info thanks :celebrate: Sorry GB!! I didn't really know how to warn anyone because I wasnt the one starting the discussion! I'll turn it into a link! now you can edit your post and the picture will be a link forever and no one else will get a shock!! Edited November 22, 200915 yr by Hamish
November 22, 200915 yr as interesting as that is i wish you had of warned about the horrible picture lol i did learn a lot though just from that bit of info thanks :celebrate: Sorry GB!! I didn't really know how to warn anyone because I wasnt the one starting the discussion! I'll turn it into a link! now you can edit your post and the picture will be a link forever and no one else will get a shock!! its all good mate i just decided to have tea in fount of com for a change as a posse to kitchen and first thing i brought up was almost my tea lol not good with gut shots or the likes
November 22, 200915 yr Author Hamish, I couldn't feel anything at first, and then on Friday I could just feel a soft mass around the whole area but not necessarily a lump. Not sure what to make of it. Anyway he's doing really badly now :celebrate: His crop is actually smaller than yesterday (could it be because I started him on the sulfa D?) But when I gave him his sulfa this morning, a sticky clear fluid started bubbling out of his throat :rofl: Then a little while later I had a shock as I couldn't see him so I knew he would be on the floor.... which he was, but he was just sitting down there. I got an appointment with the vet for 4:30.. it's the other vet at the clinic so I'm kind of happy about that because a second opinion can't hurt. I think it's probably too late though for much. I could have had an appointment a few hours earlier. But I really want to be able to bring my husband (for moral support and also so he can drive and so I can look after Cosmo in the car). If I really need to I can take him myself it would just be way nicer to have my husband there and also if we have to make any decisions about money I want him to be there.
November 23, 200915 yr Author Well, he took a turn for the worse. Started sitting on the bottom of the floor and coughing up heaps of sticky fluid, so I took him in as emergency. Lucky that my husband had a spare period backing onto lunch time, so he could come out of school and go with me. We had the other vet this time, and he was fantastic. So thorough and extremely caring. He can't tell what is wrong with Cosmo but he is fighting an infection and had heaps of liquid in his crop and hasn't been eating. He has flushed the crop out and is keeping Cosmo for 1-2 nights. Going to give him an injection of antibiotics and some high energy food and hope to get his system moving. If he pulls through from this infection then we will talk about further testing to find out what's going on. This vet doesn't think it's testicular cancer, but it could be any kind of underlying thing on any organ that then affects the whole system, or it could be an immune thing, or a disease... nothing was showing up, so we'll see how things go. It was incredibly sad leaving him there knowing there's a reasonable chance we won't see him again
November 23, 200915 yr The previous thread that you have is in a weird format for me and it means I have to click and open every reply that has been posted and I am tired of it so thought I'd just post here. Top left of page...................click OPTIONS then select STANDARD
November 23, 200915 yr Well, he took a turn for the worse. Started sitting on the bottom of the floor and coughing up heaps of sticky fluid, so I took him in as emergency. Lucky that my husband had a spare period backing onto lunch time, so he could come out of school and go with me. We had the other vet this time, and he was fantastic. So thorough and extremely caring. He can't tell what is wrong with Cosmo but he is fighting an infection and had heaps of liquid in his crop and hasn't been eating. He has flushed the crop out and is keeping Cosmo for 1-2 nights. Going to give him an injection of antibiotics and some high energy food and hope to get his system moving. If he pulls through from this infection then we will talk about further testing to find out what's going on. This vet doesn't think it's testicular cancer, but it could be any kind of underlying thing on any organ that then affects the whole system, or it could be an immune thing, or a disease... nothing was showing up, so we'll see how things go. It was incredibly sad leaving him there knowing there's a reasonable chance we won't see him again Oh mate Poor little Cosmo....this has all come on so fast
November 24, 200915 yr Author Latest update.. he started eating for himself again some time this afternoon. He must be quite a bit better to have done that. This morning when he was still only being force fed, they said he had no more air in his crop. But now that he's eating for himself again there is a lot of air in his crop again. I don't know what that means. The vet will call me tomorrow. I hope I don't have to make any hard decisions. Poor little guy.... it's so hard still not knowing what is even causing all this.
November 25, 200915 yr Hugs xoxo Poor little guy! One step forward and two back. I hope you get some good answers soon. Have been thinking of you all xoxo
November 25, 200915 yr Author *Update* Got to speak to the vet for a good while this afternoon. He says Cosmo has responded well to the antibiotics and it seems it was some kind of gastro bug. However he is concerned about why Cosmo got an infection, because he thinks he is unlikely to have picked it up from the environment given how I keep my birds and that nothing significant has changed recently. He says a budgie should be resilient enough to deal with a tiny bit of bacteria in their environment or inside their gut so maybe there is something else wrong with him that this infection was secondary to. So in a few weeks when Cosmo is better completely, then we will go in for a blood test. But he's pretty sure Cosmo is going to get better this time around and we should see him looking brighter again in a few days. So unless I hear anything between now and tomorrow evening (no news is good news) - we will be getting Cosmo at 5:30pm tomorrow!!!
November 25, 200915 yr That is wonderful news Krosp - be interesting to see what the blood test turns up!
November 25, 200915 yr I've just read through this whole thread... what a huge shock! I am so glad that Cosmo is feeling better, and hopefully the blood test will tell you why his health has been so rocky this past month. *big hugs*
November 25, 200915 yr Author Thanks for all the support, it has been a very important part of getting me through this to know that there are other budgie lovers who understand and who are praying and barracking for Cosmo too. We won't get the blood test until he has been better for two weeks, the vet thinks that there is no point doing it now because he wants to see how his body functions when he's healthy. Hamish - yep he is a fantastic vet, and it is definitely worth the money, although I must admit I'm a little nervous about what a three night stay will cost lol but having him home will be priceless. Piccolo has missed him too.
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