How do you folks manage, knowing that your bun is on the maximal dose of metacam, yet watching them in abdominal pain every 2-3 days for 6-12+ hours with stasis & gradually getting worse, month by month?
I know he's in stasis. When I'm lying on the floor with him stroking him - not a bowel sound, only breath sounds right low down. Hardly eating, & waiting for what seems like eternity for him to empty a caecum that's doing nothing but causing pain.
All I can do is to let him have his afternoon rest & stroke him the rest of the time. It often seems to help alot. It's really cutting me up after 6 months. He's fighting on. I'm even cut up that he's so brave about it. Nothing like ready to give up.
I could be strong for him for the 1st. 5 months. I still am in finding food he can eat while he rests. I wish I could have a break to cry.
It's silly but I want to say that mega colon/ceacum is a horrid horrid illness. There's no respite from it.
I know he's in stasis. When I'm lying on the floor with him stroking him - not a bowel sound, only breath sounds right low down. Hardly eating, & waiting for what seems like eternity for him to empty a caecum that's doing nothing but causing pain.
All I can do is to let him have his afternoon rest & stroke him the rest of the time. It often seems to help alot. It's really cutting me up after 6 months. He's fighting on. I'm even cut up that he's so brave about it. Nothing like ready to give up.
I could be strong for him for the 1st. 5 months. I still am in finding food he can eat while he rests. I wish I could have a break to cry.
It's silly but I want to say that mega colon/ceacum is a horrid horrid illness. There's no respite from it.
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