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Emergency Vet Appointment This Morning, Toffee Aka Buffy, Very Worried

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Thinking of you and Buffy tomorrow x x
 
Thankyou, we dropped her off at the vets at 8.15 before taking my kids to school and I felt quite ill leaving her there.
My daughter cried when we left Toffee, she was saying "I want my guinea pig" and I felt dreadful :(
Now I'm at work waiting anxiously for the phone call from the vets x
 
Oh god, I am so sorry buddy. Nothing I can say will help, but I am really really sorry. Huge hugs x x
 
Thank you so much, it means a lot to have your sympathies. People at work who saw me run out of the office crying think I am completely mad now :(
 
Oh Cassandra I am so very sorry. This is such a tragic thing to have happened. My heart goes out to you. I'm so sorry.
 
A poem from Toffee aka Buffy, by guineabecs
To @Goth Mummy
I left you so, I cant say why, but it was my time to say goodbye.
My time on earth is at an end, but grieve me not, my faithful friend.
You helped me so, and did your best, I could not have asked for more from all the rest.
I understand that you are sad, but please do not cry, don't be mad.
Tell my friend that I am sorry, tell her to find a new friend, and not to worry.
I have been so blessed, to have been owned by you, you have been the best owner in everything you do.
Heaven needed an angel, and so I must leave, but I will be watching over you all, please, do not grieve.
It will be hard, I understand so, I will never really leave you, and go.
 
Thank you all, I am still devastated and in shock

Your kind words mean so much to me.

The vets did warn me that guinea pigs have a high risk of dying under a GA but I thought they were just telling me that as a precaution, you never expect it to be your guinea pig that dies........especially as she was only 1 year and 6 months old, I thought she had a good chance.

The vet said they think she had an underlying condition as they didnt expect her to pass away under the anaesthetic before they even started the surgical procedure.

I will always have the worry that if she had seen the referral vet first and not wasted days being treated with baytril after aspiration first, she might be still here.

Here are my beautiful girls, this photo was taken a couple of nights ago, you can imagine how much Raspberry Ripple aka Willow is missing her already.

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@guineabecs that poem is lovely thank you x

Cassandra x
 
I am so sorry for your loss.

It is so hard when you lose a beautiful friend like Toffee and such a shock when they die suddenly like that.

You did your best and it is natural to start saying what if? You will probably go over and over things and wonder if you had done this or that, would the outcome be different, but you did your best for Toffee.

Toffee was lucky to have such love and care and sometimes, despite all our care, we cannot stop the outcome.
 
Try not to beat yourself up with the 'what ifs.' I know it's easier said than done, I did it quite a lot when my Frenzy passed away (also from abscess complications, also at only 18 months or so of age.) I know the vet that I see now is far more on top of things than my old vet who saw Frenzy, and I sometimes wonder if the outcome would have been different for her if I knew then what I know now. But I do know that I did the best I could do at the time and that, although her life was not as long as I would have liked, she had love and treats and pats every single day, and a lot of piggies probably don't have that kind of love and attention, so at least the time she had was the best time I could possibly give her.
 
My heart goes out to you at this time, it must have been a horrible shock to lose your beautiful Toffee at such a young age. Please bear in mind that you gave her a wonderful life and as the pain passes to an ache you have wonderful memories that will keep a part of her with you always.
 
Big hugs. I am so sorry for you and your family. I went through the same with our beloved Cash at the start of the year and there is nothing quite like getting that awful call, especially when they've gone in for something thats supposed to be making them better! You did everything you possibly could for her and gave her a wonderful life and a home in which she was clearly treasured.

Sleep tight little one x
 
Oh @Tbag I remember you loosing Cash, that was awful, it is such a shock isnt it.

To everyone who has experiences of them.....
It sounds like abscesses are not an easy thing to sort at all. Are they ever lanced without a GA?
 
I am so sorry, what an awful shock for you :( Although GA is risky, it is generally safe most of the time. Was your vet experienced in piggy GA's? The more experienced the vet, or even better an Exotics vet use particular GAs that carry the least risk, that's not to say your vet didn't, but it's that experience that lessens the risk. However if there was something underlying already wrong with her then that could have been a heart problem or something that meant her little body just couldn't take the GA very well. It happens, but it is not common, I've only heard of a handful where this has happened & there are a lot of piggies on here that have had ops. Sadly it is a risk we take when we agree to the op :( I would never let any other vet operate on one of mine except my own vet or Simon at the Cat & Rabbit Clinic because mine have had ops by both & I know they are very experienced vets, but that's because I've been lucky to have been able to get my piggies to both of them. It's not your fault at all, please don't feel bad, you did the best you could for her & she had a wonderful life with you. I hope your little girl is ok too x
 
Isn't that the truth! Lost both my Abby & Cinnamon Roll to very well hidden pneumonia & URI! :( the SECOND you suspect something isn't right, it's best to take them ASAP to your trusted exotics vet. Better safe than sorry. And, perhaps a moment of silence and a small prayer to saint Francis, in honor of all those forgotten piggies who didn't ask for their fate... [emoji174][emoji22][emoji120][emoji72][emoji252]

Rest in peace sweet Toffee. May there be a never ending supply of hay on the other side of that rainbow bridge...[emoji252][emoji22][emoji120][emoji304]
 
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