Bill & Ted
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Well, we have been on a rollercoaster ride this last two weeks with Ted not eating well and gaging on his food, refusing to eat this hay and almost all veggies too. We went up on Sunday and stayed overnight, then made the rest of the journey early Monday morning and saw Simon who filed his doggy molar spur which had caused a massive ulcer in the side of his mouth.
It was then Bill’s turn to have his incisor trim and I mentioned I had found a small lump in Bill’s tummy. I wasn’t unduly bothered as I knew we had an appointment booked in a fortnight (couldn’t get in any earlier as they were fully booked) Simon felt the lump and looked quite concerned, I knew it was something bad at that point. He manipulated the lump and drew blood from Bill’s nipple. He suspected it was a mammary tumour and also found another one just next to it. I was given the choice of monitoring, but he said that in Male guinea pigs with this type of cancer is very aggressive and can grow very fast and become inoperable very quickly and spread very fast. The other option was an operation to remove it. So we made the decision to have it done there and then. Simon was brilliant and put Bill‘s operation in front of all the other surgery he had planned and whipped Bill and Ted off into the back. We had to ring at 3.00pm and find out how it went. We called back at 3.00pm and were told to come back at 4.00 pm as he was very drowsy. At 4.00pm he was eating and was chatting to Ted and quite well enough to go home
I was really concerned about the long journey home, around 400 miles which started at 4.45 pm and ending after 11.00 pm with 2 syringe feed stops for Ted. We had two road closures and long diversions on the M5 at Exeter and M30 ten miles to home became another 20!. Bill was such a little star. Just laid there in his bed eating and sleeping.
Bill resilience has amazed me and my OH, he’s acted like nothing has happened. he has a large wound under his tummy and has had the indignity of having one of his testicles shaved (my OH mentioned this, it’s a man thing
) He’s even tried to hump Ted this morning, so doing really well so far!
Ted has been really off it until about 2.00 pm this afternoon when OH went out and found some lovely grass, this has picked him up no end, he lost 25gm yesterday despite my best efforts. I really thought we were going to loose him his morning. He is now starting to eat a little bette, no hay yet, but some veggies and pellets and grass. Simon says it will take a few days for his mouth to heal and then he may get an interest once he stabilised weight wise and feeling better.
So all in all really pleased, Shell shocked, still worried and so grateful to Simon, what an amazing, caring vet
A big thanks to my OH too for driving through the dark miserable night, trying to avoid potholes!
It was then Bill’s turn to have his incisor trim and I mentioned I had found a small lump in Bill’s tummy. I wasn’t unduly bothered as I knew we had an appointment booked in a fortnight (couldn’t get in any earlier as they were fully booked) Simon felt the lump and looked quite concerned, I knew it was something bad at that point. He manipulated the lump and drew blood from Bill’s nipple. He suspected it was a mammary tumour and also found another one just next to it. I was given the choice of monitoring, but he said that in Male guinea pigs with this type of cancer is very aggressive and can grow very fast and become inoperable very quickly and spread very fast. The other option was an operation to remove it. So we made the decision to have it done there and then. Simon was brilliant and put Bill‘s operation in front of all the other surgery he had planned and whipped Bill and Ted off into the back. We had to ring at 3.00pm and find out how it went. We called back at 3.00pm and were told to come back at 4.00 pm as he was very drowsy. At 4.00pm he was eating and was chatting to Ted and quite well enough to go home
I was really concerned about the long journey home, around 400 miles which started at 4.45 pm and ending after 11.00 pm with 2 syringe feed stops for Ted. We had two road closures and long diversions on the M5 at Exeter and M30 ten miles to home became another 20!. Bill was such a little star. Just laid there in his bed eating and sleeping.
Bill resilience has amazed me and my OH, he’s acted like nothing has happened. he has a large wound under his tummy and has had the indignity of having one of his testicles shaved (my OH mentioned this, it’s a man thing
) He’s even tried to hump Ted this morning, so doing really well so far!Ted has been really off it until about 2.00 pm this afternoon when OH went out and found some lovely grass, this has picked him up no end, he lost 25gm yesterday despite my best efforts. I really thought we were going to loose him his morning. He is now starting to eat a little bette, no hay yet, but some veggies and pellets and grass. Simon says it will take a few days for his mouth to heal and then he may get an interest once he stabilised weight wise and feeling better.
So all in all really pleased, Shell shocked, still worried and so grateful to Simon, what an amazing, caring vet
A big thanks to my OH too for driving through the dark miserable night, trying to avoid potholes!
Hubby always tell them whenever Simon is having a holiday in Wales, if he can check in where we live so he can do a full check up with our piggies. 
