GenericBlue 0 Posted November 22, 2009 Member ID: 4,737 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 106 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 5,156 Content Per Day: 0.92 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 28,240 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 08/09/1973 Share Posted November 22, 2009 (edited) [ 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, 2009 by GenericBlue Link to comment
Hamish 0 Posted November 22, 2009 Member ID: 4,299 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 84 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/04/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 26, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2009 (edited) 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, 2009 by Hamish Link to comment
GenericBlue 0 Posted November 22, 2009 Member ID: 4,737 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 106 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 5,156 Content Per Day: 0.92 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 28,240 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 08/09/1973 Share Posted November 22, 2009 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 Link to comment
krosp 0 Posted November 22, 2009 Member ID: 4,621 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 777 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2009 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. Link to comment
krosp 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 4,621 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 777 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 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 Link to comment
**Liv** 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 3,771 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 147 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 6,621 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,450 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 23/10/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 8, 2014 Birthday: 09/04/1911 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Am hoping he pulls through Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted November 23, 2009 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 Link to comment
defieldsfamily 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 5,648 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 327 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,400 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 13, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2009 (edited) Prayers for little Cosmo Edited November 23, 2009 by defieldsfamily Link to comment
maesie 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 3,838 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,386 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 27,580 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 18/11/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2013 Birthday: 20/04/1979 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Thinking of you and praying for Cosmo xoxo Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted November 23, 2009 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 Link to comment
naomi 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 5,182 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 19 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 150 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 965 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 3, 2010 Birthday: 04/08/1970 Share Posted November 23, 2009 So sorry to hear about poor little Cosmo... hope things turn out okay! Link to comment
Hannah 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 5,405 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 151 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 935 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 30/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 28, 2014 Birthday: 13/03/1996 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I hope Cosmo pulls through. My thoughts are with you! Link to comment
Hamish 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 4,299 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 84 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/04/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 26, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Which vet did you take him to? I am hoping for the best!! Link to comment
Elly 0 Posted November 23, 2009 Member ID: 1,641 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 15,350 Content Per Day: 2.23 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 99,335 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Fingers crossed Link to comment
krosp 0 Posted November 24, 2009 Member ID: 4,621 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 777 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 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. Link to comment
maesie 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 3,838 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,386 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 27,580 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 18/11/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2013 Birthday: 20/04/1979 Share Posted November 25, 2009 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 Link to comment
krosp 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 4,621 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 777 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 *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!!! Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Great news Link to comment
maesie 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 3,838 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,386 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 27,580 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 18/11/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2013 Birthday: 20/04/1979 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Woooo hooo I bet you can't wait. Great news! Link to comment
Hannah 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 5,405 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 151 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 935 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 30/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 28, 2014 Birthday: 13/03/1996 Share Posted November 25, 2009 That's great news Link to comment
renee 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 4,388 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,462 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 13,420 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/05/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 28, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2009 That is wonderful news Krosp - be interesting to see what the blood test turns up! Link to comment
Hamish 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 4,299 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 84 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/04/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 26, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Gota love a good vet Great news Krosp It'll be money well spent! Link to comment
sootie 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 4,805 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 142 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 860 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/11/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 1, 2012 Birthday: 22/09/1985 Share Posted November 25, 2009 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* Link to comment
krosp 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 4,621 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 777 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 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. Link to comment
GenericBlue 0 Posted November 25, 2009 Member ID: 4,737 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 106 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 5,156 Content Per Day: 0.92 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 28,240 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 08/09/1973 Share Posted November 25, 2009 my praying he pulls through Link to comment
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