we have two main ones right now -
Thistle (elderly, snuffles very badly, no lung tissue left as all scarred from pasturella), has developed a gut issue we are having tested to try and find the problem, and also wees on herself probable due to her spondylosis. Oh and also has no front teeth. She has had to be split from her group and brought inside while the faecal tests are done and it is unlikely she will go back out due to the wee problem and so is living alone at present in not ideal space.
However she seems quite happy as she is in cage in dining room where we all hang out a lot.
Parsley - well the list gets longer every time we go to the vets -
recent very very extensive bulla op for immense abscess.,
strong possibility of this having to be repeated or abscess popping up elsewhere;
on-going melanoma that he is having vaccines for to try and prevent metastisising;
cancer melanoma removed from eye area;
diagnosed with non-regenerative anaemia due to either the ear infections or the cancer or possibly some other health issue we don't yet know about.
We also have to keep an eye on the pin in his leg that didnt come out when the other 26 pins did (it broke and stayed in place and may start to travel) and of course his face is half paralised due to the ear issues.
As if that wasnt enough . . . when he went to have his stitches out yesterday they discovered that a lymph gland near his neck (sort of under the jaw/neck) is swollen - vet not sure which of his issues is causing this - infection or cancer. She took a sample . . . I sometimes wonder if there is any part of Parsley that has nt been either sampled, pinned, removed, tested or operated on. . .
I (and Steve) worry about him constantly every moment of the day - is he eating enough, does he look slower than yesterday, is his eye weeping, is his eye blinking yet (damaged unavoidable in surgery), have any other bumps come up, is he ok without painkiller? do we go ahead with the next vaccine, when is the next blood test, will the infection come back, what is this new lump, etc etc etc
and just dont ask about the cat (totally senile, huge kidney tumours). We 'review' his life expectancy on a daily basis (particularly when he asks to be let in/out for the three thousandth time in an hour - or yowls the place down at 3am . . . he really IS senile:lol: (and yes we do have a cat flap).
Sorry - seem to have got carried away here . . . .
all of them are however happy at present so (apart from the cat .. . ) we are not in that awful 'is it today' situation 0 which I have been in in the past with buns (Blackberry EC and brain damage and renal failure, Viola Rose renal failure, . . in fact renal failure seems to me the most difficult . . . )