cavy.girl
New Kit
I'm really afraid that Lucy could be losing her battle with a root abscess today. :'(
Her history: Lucy (6) has chronic dental issues including malocclusion, loss of teeth, some have been surgically removed and she's struggled with abscesses. One seemed to clear up, but since her last dental another abscess appeared and has been causing a lot of grief. It's near her eye and apparently pressing on her tear duct, so the last several weeks she's had a constant wet mouth and watery eye. She's had septrin in the past which helped her last abscess, but sulfatrim and baytril hasn't done so much, and she doesn't seem to tolerate depocillin. I've been giving her daily metacam to help with any pain and inflammation, and fibreplex.
After a round of baytil, yesterday the vet said we'd try depocillin again, which we injected her with last night. This morning when I went to give Lucy her metacam I found her flopped out on the floor unable to use her legs. We called the vet and met up with them and he checked Lucy over. He seems to think that the abscess may have worsened, getting into her blood stream, causing septicaemia. Her core body temperature was low. Getting blood from her was difficult but he managed a drop and said she was borderline diabetic. He's injected her with baytril (and something else but I didn't see) and we've come home with more baytril and a thermometer to keep check of her temp.
Lucy this evening is still very weak; heaving herself around and struggling to lift her head. I'm struggling to feed her critical care which is unlike her as she usually begs for it. She normally lives upstairs on the floor but we have her down in the living room which our other rabbit for company. I have her snuggle safe and bed and lots of blankets but she keeps trying to get away from it all, preferring the horrible cold laminate.
Basically I'm really worried that this is the end of the battle for Lucy. I just don't feel satisfied that this is all we can do for her, and I'm petrified she's going to pass away through the night. Does anyone have any suggestions, advice or anything that I may be missing?
Thank you.
Becky
Her history: Lucy (6) has chronic dental issues including malocclusion, loss of teeth, some have been surgically removed and she's struggled with abscesses. One seemed to clear up, but since her last dental another abscess appeared and has been causing a lot of grief. It's near her eye and apparently pressing on her tear duct, so the last several weeks she's had a constant wet mouth and watery eye. She's had septrin in the past which helped her last abscess, but sulfatrim and baytril hasn't done so much, and she doesn't seem to tolerate depocillin. I've been giving her daily metacam to help with any pain and inflammation, and fibreplex.
After a round of baytil, yesterday the vet said we'd try depocillin again, which we injected her with last night. This morning when I went to give Lucy her metacam I found her flopped out on the floor unable to use her legs. We called the vet and met up with them and he checked Lucy over. He seems to think that the abscess may have worsened, getting into her blood stream, causing septicaemia. Her core body temperature was low. Getting blood from her was difficult but he managed a drop and said she was borderline diabetic. He's injected her with baytril (and something else but I didn't see) and we've come home with more baytril and a thermometer to keep check of her temp.
Lucy this evening is still very weak; heaving herself around and struggling to lift her head. I'm struggling to feed her critical care which is unlike her as she usually begs for it. She normally lives upstairs on the floor but we have her down in the living room which our other rabbit for company. I have her snuggle safe and bed and lots of blankets but she keeps trying to get away from it all, preferring the horrible cold laminate.
Basically I'm really worried that this is the end of the battle for Lucy. I just don't feel satisfied that this is all we can do for her, and I'm petrified she's going to pass away through the night. Does anyone have any suggestions, advice or anything that I may be missing?
Thank you.
Becky
It sounds as though you are doing as much as you can to help her, keeping her warm is certainly very important. I do hope that by some miracle she will have made it through the night. If she has and if she is still in a bad way could the Vet admit her for intensive care. Getting an IV line in may be tricky if she is systemically shutting down, but the Vet may try and he/she may also get her into an incubator to try to get her body temperature up and maybe give her some oxygen which could help her feel a bit better.
