Re: Pebbles is having to go to the vets tomorrow
Well, what a day!!! Saw a locum vet, who pulled at her legs (good job I am used to holding my own cats at the vets!!), prodded her abdomen, listened to her chest, and looked at her ears, eyes, nose and mouth without saying a word!! Then said that he thought my friend was right about it being a dislocated hip, and he wanted a hip and chest x-ray (he put in her notes that he could hear a loudness in her chest), and if the chest x-ray came back clear, he wanted to do a further test to see if there was any reason for the noisy breathing. But, the other branch of my vets dont have a vet nurse on a Sat (despite 4 receptionists), so they couldn't do the x-rays there, we had to either go to the on-call vet, or wait till Mon - and if it was a dislocated hip, waiting till Mon would have meant there was no chance of trying to pop it back in place and woudl have meant surgery. I opted to go to the on call vet, who took her and said they would ring in a couple of hours, I thought I could wait while they did it. Turns out, she has a pin in her leg from when she had the car accident, and that is what was causing her to be lame, so he wanted to operate to remove it - I was iffy, as she is so far away, but decided it wasn't fair to bring her home today to have to take her to the regular vets during the week, when it could be done today and she could be home tomorrow. So, she has had an op, and I can ring when I get up to arrange picking her up. Her chest x-ray was clear, and he just said it must be coming from her throat - so it has been dismissed yet again. Fortunatley she doesn't have to have cage rest, but will have to be kept in for a while - he said a few days, but she will have stitches, so it will prob be till they are gone. I am pleased that I thought she would have to have an x-ray and pre-starved her, or she might have had to wait till Mon. Not looking forward to the bill though!!
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