yaretzi
Wise Old Thumper
Was just about to leave for my CBT appointment when I checked on them both to find her tummy pressing and not interested in food. She did a wee. This was 2pm, and she was eating fine at 9am. She had some bits of veg and some pellets. She just had the normal veg that she usually has, and she never usually has any problems with gas or anything even when she eats broccoli etc. She has had stasis twice before... one was resolved easily with some metacam, zantac and metaclop, and the other required a couple of vets visits over a few days where she was administered the same 3 meds but it likely took longer to resolve because she wasn't given metacam on the first two consulations despite me trying to insist that she needed it. Couldn't seem to find any particular reason for the stasis episodes last time. Both episodes were slowdown rather than blockage.
The vet last time recommended that if this happened again I give 0.7ml of metacam and administer 3ml of gripe water and monitor her for an hour. If no improvement, I should administer more gripe water and if no improvement after another hour I should bring her in. I've made an appointment with the vets at 6pm. They had one at 4pm but considering I only got the gripe water down her at 2.30 and I'd have to leave at 3pm to get there for 4pm I thought it was best that I go for the 6pm one. I don't want to use any vets apart from my new ones.
I was hoping to be able to do my CBT on the phone while monitoring Tapla out the window but it's not really feasible so it's been cancelled. I'll go and let them both out for a run around now and hopefully that'll get her gut moving. I tried to give her a massage but she was having none of it.
I've given her an ice pod and I'll put some water on her ears to help cool her a little as it's quite warm.
Nena seemed very confused as to why it was Tapla going inside in the carrier rather than her :roll:
Fingers crossed she perks up with a run around...
Tapla's last stasis episode was only October 2013... so only 6 months ago... :/ Before that her other one was May 2012.
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