We need a miracle
I feel that my girl is on death row and there is sod all I can do to stop it.
Went up today to see her and speak to vet. Got there and she wasn't in the stable. The vet was treating her as she wasn't well at all.
Spoke to the vet at length today and he went through everything that they done and what the options are. Basically the infection is so bad that the normal peristalsis (movement) of the bowel is not working. The wall is so thickened by the infection that the nerves are unable to work properly. She is fine when her system is empty but after 4 days there is enough food in her system to cause everything to block up and she ends up with impaction and gas colic again.
The vet is really disappointed at how things have turned out. He expected some improvement once the results of the biopsies were know and they could target it with specific medicine.
She has chronic active eosinophile colitis/typhlitis. Apart from gastrogard for her stomach ulcers, she is on metacam,rapidexon, gentamycine, bedozane, procapen, fragmin, carbasalaat calcium and equivitamin E.
They were going to administer a parafin treatment to empty her out tonight and hope that in next 7 days the medicine kicks in and the infection starts to subside so that the bowel can start working properly again.
The vet has agreed to ring Rossdales but who is the best person to speak to there. He is more than willing to try everything to help her and perhaps Rossdales can offer other options. Who can he speak to?
I'm in a neverending nightmareI've cried all the way home and have driven in a daze most of the way.
What more can I do to help her? She is now losing weight rapidly and I know that if the situation doesn't improve over the next 7 days, then the best thing I can do for her is to let her go.
We need a miracle
I feel that my girl is on death row and there is sod all I can do to stop it.
Went up today to see her and speak to vet. Got there and she wasn't in the stable. The vet was treating her as she wasn't well at all.
Spoke to the vet at length today and he went through everything that they done and what the options are. Basically the infection is so bad that the normal peristalsis (movement) of the bowel is not working. The wall is so thickened by the infection that the nerves are unable to work properly. She is fine when her system is empty but after 4 days there is enough food in her system to cause everything to block up and she ends up with impaction and gas colic again.
The vet is really disappointed at how things have turned out. He expected some improvement once the results of the biopsies were know and they could target it with specific medicine.
She has chronic active eosinophile colitis/typhlitis. Apart from gastrogard for her stomach ulcers, she is on metacam,rapidexon, gentamycine, bedozane, procapen, fragmin, carbasalaat calcium and equivitamin E.
They were going to administer a parafin treatment to empty her out tonight and hope that in next 7 days the medicine kicks in and the infection starts to subside so that the bowel can start working properly again.
The vet has agreed to ring Rossdales but who is the best person to speak to there. He is more than willing to try everything to help her and perhaps Rossdales can offer other options. Who can he speak to?
I'm in a neverending nightmare
What more can I do to help her? She is now losing weight rapidly and I know that if the situation doesn't improve over the next 7 days, then the best thing I can do for her is to let her go.
) I have to make the PTS decision, I dread to think how terrible it is going to be.
Just spoken to the vet. He has spoken to Claire at Rossdales and unfortunately the prognosis is not good. There is another antibiotic we can use but it KILLS all the bacteria, good and bad and can lead to the horse going into massive shock and dying. Because its not used regularly as these cases are rare there are no real statistics to say if it works or not. This medication only treats the symptoms not the root cause of the problem which is the massive infection.
We have decided, for the moment, not to do this and to hope that the current medicine will kick in. It may be the very last resort to use this in the hope that the good bacteria will flourish again not the bad bacteria but do I really want her to suffer in the case that it doesn't help.
24/7 on grass is not an option because gas would build up very quickly in her bowel and the problem is her bowel is not moving quick enough to dispel it. The medication she is currently on is supposed to be helping this by targeting the infection so the bowel can start working properly again.
We just have to keep hoping that the medication will start to have an effect on the infection but she has already been on this medication now for 3 weeks with no signs of any improvement. They started this medication before we decided to do the surgery. I just wish they had found something else during the surgery. I could be posting now that she was almost ready to come home. As it is, it is highly unlikely that she will come home.
I am trying to remain positive but when all efforts seem to bring no positive outcome it is very hard. I have to prepare myself for the worst and that is killing me. I am a wreck at the moment. Devastated comes nowhere near how I feel and if (when
xxx I don't know if you have already done this, but if not may I suggest you sit down and make a worst case scenario PTS plan - how you want it to happen and what you want to happen after. It isn't nice, but once its done you don't have to deal with it when the time does come. One minute I was planning for a new treatment on monday (this was friday morning) friday evening, she was so weak I came home determined to call the vets to PTS on the saturday.... which they did. Believe me, just making the decision of PTS is bad enough and I was so glad that I had my plan so I didn't have to worry about the details when the time came, I already knew who I needed there, what method I wanted, and what was going to happen to her afterwards. xx My thoughts are with you and I come on here everyday at the moment, praying for a miracle for you and your beautiful girl.
MM I am so sorry to read this
This is what is making the decision so hard. If she was seriously ill all the time, it wouldn't be such a hard decision to make but she has 2-3 good days then 2 bad days. It's not fair on her as this is not quality of life and she is also now losing weight as a result. We have discussed IV feeding but the vets said this is not an option. They did explain the reasons why but I was too upset at the time to remember exactly what they said.
We may have found our miracle thanks to cjhmm! Can't say much yet as it is ongoing but it has given me hope!
Cjhmm I am so so grateful for your help. If you where here you'd get the biggest hug from me anyone could ever give just for giving me this hope.
Will let you know what happens.
Come on HHO send us the vibes to boost this possible cure.
We may have found our miracle thanks to cjhmm! Can't say much yet as it is ongoing but it has given me hope!
Cjhmm I am so so grateful for your help. If you where here you'd get the biggest hug from me anyone could ever give just for giving me this hope.
Will let you know what happens.
Come on HHO send us the vibes to boost this possible cure.
