Sorry all, just woke up (got to bed at 5:20am
)
I noticed her leaning slightly like she was semi resting herself against the cage, so thought "please not stasis".
Nope, it was worse. On picking her up, she had a huge prolapse from her vagina, about the size of a sausage in length, and about 2-2.5inches in width.
I called the emergency vet at 2:53am.
They usually call back within 5 minutes, but didn't :? Called another two times-same thing. Thought "I'll be getting in a taxi"
Got there, no sign of the vet being there, and shutter is down.
So spent the next 20 minutes banging on the window until the on call nurse woke up and peered out of the upstairs window to see who it was.
The emergency phone, it turns out, after the nurse called practice manager (at 4am!) who in turn called vet, had not been picking up signal overnight :shock: so sending everything straight to voicemail.
The nurse wondered why on a saturday night they had no emergencies in :shock:
So it was a good thing I persisted for 20 minutes in banging for help (It was very cold and I wasn't wearing shoes :roll
She was admitted for the vet to see when she got in. I had a call later saying her uterus had prolapsed through her vagina.
They were trying to reduce the size at the time, in the hope it could go back by itself.
I had a call 10 minutes to go to say they did emergency surgery and removed the uterus externally, as it was not going to go back, and she would at some point still need her ovaries removing, but in her critical state, it was better to do it externally.
She has come round okay, but not eaten yet.
The next 24 hours are critical as to if she will remain in a stable condition.
This poor girl has been through so much