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I have been down to Olympia, so sorry to those who have PM'd me and sent messages on here... I am very touched!
I have had several updates from the resident vet, Mel, and she has been fantastic. Never once have I felt I am chasing up information, she has phoned me twice a day and I am so very grateful for her honesty when she speaks to me.
I phoned the vets yesterday morning and there was a message waiting for me saying it was "excellent news" and Mel was really pleased with how Grace was doing and would phone me later on. About 10 minutes later I received a phone call from Mel saying she was really pleased with Grace's progress, and she was eating all of the haylage that she was having put in, was really bright and had eaten the high energy feed that she had been given. The biopsy had also come back and everything was fine... there was also no signs of salmonella damage, but we are still awaiting the rest of the test results for this from the lab.
Mel then phoned me in the evening and said Grace was still very bright, but had not eaten the high energy feed. I asked whether she had haylage in too, and she did... so I explained that she does not really bother with hard feed if it is quite plain when she has haylage. So this morning she ate all of it before having the haylage put in.
I phoned up this morning for an update and the receptionist said it was excellent news again this morning, she was incredibly bright and she had been taken off the IV fluids. However, when Mel phoned me this afternoon it transpired that Grace had removed her catheter twice so they had left it out and were monitoring her dehydration carefully which was looking good this evening.
We are still waiting for the test results of the salmonella, but she still has the dirrahoea... I asked what could be causing this and Mel said colitis was more than likely the cause
Does anyone know about colitis??? From how she said it, it seemed quite a common thing and not something to be too concerned about...
I have had several updates from the resident vet, Mel, and she has been fantastic. Never once have I felt I am chasing up information, she has phoned me twice a day and I am so very grateful for her honesty when she speaks to me.
I phoned the vets yesterday morning and there was a message waiting for me saying it was "excellent news" and Mel was really pleased with how Grace was doing and would phone me later on. About 10 minutes later I received a phone call from Mel saying she was really pleased with Grace's progress, and she was eating all of the haylage that she was having put in, was really bright and had eaten the high energy feed that she had been given. The biopsy had also come back and everything was fine... there was also no signs of salmonella damage, but we are still awaiting the rest of the test results for this from the lab.
Mel then phoned me in the evening and said Grace was still very bright, but had not eaten the high energy feed. I asked whether she had haylage in too, and she did... so I explained that she does not really bother with hard feed if it is quite plain when she has haylage. So this morning she ate all of it before having the haylage put in.
I phoned up this morning for an update and the receptionist said it was excellent news again this morning, she was incredibly bright and she had been taken off the IV fluids. However, when Mel phoned me this afternoon it transpired that Grace had removed her catheter twice so they had left it out and were monitoring her dehydration carefully which was looking good this evening.
We are still waiting for the test results of the salmonella, but she still has the dirrahoea... I asked what could be causing this and Mel said colitis was more than likely the cause
Does anyone know about colitis??? From how she said it, it seemed quite a common thing and not something to be too concerned about...
