lauryn1289
Junior Guinea Pig
I feel like this is the billionth post I’ve made here lately, I’m sorry! I just really need somewhere to put my thoughts down.
So a few days ago my boy Kip had stopped eating suddenly, constantly in bed and tossing and turning a lot with little to no poops, then perked up a bit after lots of syringe feeds and was interested in food but just couldn’t seem to eat it. Then went downhill again the next day. I knew he was able to chew and was concerned that if he didn’t already have teeth issues he would if he didn’t eat hay, so I put some small strands of hay in his syringe feed and he did chew them and eat a small amount of cucumber soaked hay. Same evening we went to the vet and he was bloated, and based on what she found we put him to sleep.
I just can’t stop thinking what if I made the wrong choice. The same vet practice missed a bladder stone in my OTRB Bobby just weeks prior, but surely they couldn’t have misinterpreted what they DID actually see? It was a different and much nicer vet too who for once actually bothered to try and look at his molars with a long otoscope, but I’m so stuck on the fact she wasn’t an exotic vet. I was gonna bring him to the nearest exotic vet which is 2 hours away, but everything happened so fast that evening and out of nowhere. I was going to this vet for antibiotics and some pain relief and if they hadn’t worked in a couple of days, bringing him the 2 hour journey.
She told me she saw fluid because he was bloated, but that she also saw fluid in his abdomen which she says could’ve only been caused by 2 things and both were bad (I don’t remember what she said the causes were, I was so emotional and sobbing at this stage.) She said if it was just bloat she would obviously want to treat it, but with the fluid in his abdomen she saw no point.
I keep worrying that she misinterpreted what she saw, or that a second opinion would’ve been better, or maybe she didn’t understand guinea pigs enough to make that call with all the right information. I’m absolutely distraught thinking I put him to sleep if I maybe shouldn’t have. He was nearly 7 but he was still lively and walking around and headbutting his house at that stage, just looked sick and obviously felt it, but I’m so worried he wasn’t sick enough to put to sleep or this could’ve been solved, and he wasn’t ready to go just yet. I only wanted to do what was best for him because I loved him so much and never wanted to think of him being in any sort of discomfort and I’m so worried I made that choice too quickly. I’m absolutely sick with guilt and regret that I could have made the wrong decision here.
So a few days ago my boy Kip had stopped eating suddenly, constantly in bed and tossing and turning a lot with little to no poops, then perked up a bit after lots of syringe feeds and was interested in food but just couldn’t seem to eat it. Then went downhill again the next day. I knew he was able to chew and was concerned that if he didn’t already have teeth issues he would if he didn’t eat hay, so I put some small strands of hay in his syringe feed and he did chew them and eat a small amount of cucumber soaked hay. Same evening we went to the vet and he was bloated, and based on what she found we put him to sleep.
I just can’t stop thinking what if I made the wrong choice. The same vet practice missed a bladder stone in my OTRB Bobby just weeks prior, but surely they couldn’t have misinterpreted what they DID actually see? It was a different and much nicer vet too who for once actually bothered to try and look at his molars with a long otoscope, but I’m so stuck on the fact she wasn’t an exotic vet. I was gonna bring him to the nearest exotic vet which is 2 hours away, but everything happened so fast that evening and out of nowhere. I was going to this vet for antibiotics and some pain relief and if they hadn’t worked in a couple of days, bringing him the 2 hour journey.
She told me she saw fluid because he was bloated, but that she also saw fluid in his abdomen which she says could’ve only been caused by 2 things and both were bad (I don’t remember what she said the causes were, I was so emotional and sobbing at this stage.) She said if it was just bloat she would obviously want to treat it, but with the fluid in his abdomen she saw no point.
I keep worrying that she misinterpreted what she saw, or that a second opinion would’ve been better, or maybe she didn’t understand guinea pigs enough to make that call with all the right information. I’m absolutely distraught thinking I put him to sleep if I maybe shouldn’t have. He was nearly 7 but he was still lively and walking around and headbutting his house at that stage, just looked sick and obviously felt it, but I’m so worried he wasn’t sick enough to put to sleep or this could’ve been solved, and he wasn’t ready to go just yet. I only wanted to do what was best for him because I loved him so much and never wanted to think of him being in any sort of discomfort and I’m so worried I made that choice too quickly. I’m absolutely sick with guilt and regret that I could have made the wrong decision here.
