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Help I Think Coco Is Dying

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Very good news that the diarhhoea has stopped - even better that she feels well enough to give herself a good clean. Looking positive!

However I'm afraid you can;t relax your vigilance and supportive care just yet - keep following/observing as per my 6point post.
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Fingers firmly crossed for Coco!

You are a great and very caring mummy! Please hand feed her in smaller portions, as she will be likely quite weak and is struggling more with getting things done.
 
All the Pebble piggies are wheeking support for Coco and her mummy.
I'm really hoping that no news is good news
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I can't actually believe the difference in her today. I'm so so shocked at the difference literally overnight! Her breathing is still crackly and she is still choking on food alot which is going to need to be addressed really soon when I get everything sorted.
BUT, a few days ago she was so sick i didn't think she was going to live. She wasn't moving and was really limp when i was picked her up to give her her medicine.
This morning I woke up to sort her and this is how she's been all today! It's like night and day :D I feel like a can stop holding my breath! haha


 
I've been really worried about making her leave the house for yet another vet trip because i didn't want to put her through it when she was looking & clearly feeling so horrible. But, now i feel like it can be all systems go to focus on whatever the hell this choking problem is that's making her lose all this weight!
 
Yay - Wonderful news...
Sorry but I'm a bit too aged to understand how to post smileys/emoticons to iniicate to you just how fantastic this news is!...
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I'm so happy and trhrilled to hear Coco is still with us and clearly determined to deal with whatever is affecting her at the moment.

Go Coco Girlie.

To Coco's slave- Congratulations and well doe!
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Thanks so so much.
I've taken on board everything you said on the phone & i'm gunna need to get her to Glenn as soon as possible.
I'm gunna need to take her by pubic transport. which is 2hrs 45 mins by bus according to google maps D: but as long as she's looking up to it, I'm sure i'll manage. lol.
Seriously deal with this crap happening again because of it! I don't know how you deal with your herd of medical marvels without dissolving into a pit of despair! hahaha. xx
 
I'd recommend a train from Glasgow to Larbert. Get a Taxi from Larbert it'll be much quicker taxi will only be about £6 if I remember rightly and there is a taxi rank at Larbert. X
 
flintstones said:
I'd recommend a train from Glasgow to Larbert. Get a Taxi from Larbert it'll be much quicker taxi will only be about £6 if I remember rightly and there is a taxi rank at Larbert. X
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Thank you! I'll look that up when I get home. & with the train I'll know where to get off too instead of crossing my fingers and hoping I don't get lost after I leave Buchanan station. Haha. x
 
It says I need to sign in to view video? :( (this happens to other people not signed into You tube too).
 
Ugh that's a pain, It wouldn't let me do it any other way. I hate uploading through YouTube too. Its just her running up her ramp and me scaring her back down anyway lol. X
 
Hi, cokes has been really struggling the past while. She has had 5 of these choking episodes in the past 2 days and her weight is continuing to drop.

Had my lovely vet send over the case notes and xrays over to Glenn at Apex because her final attempt was going to be to give coco steriods, and she was very concerned that coco would not tolerate them well at all and was hoping too that glenn would maybe have a little more insight.
I seen glen this morning he said he was very concerned about her weight its now. Its just falling off her and shes so bony at 650g and the diarrhoea (which is really bad now). He had advised me to syringe feed her every four hours and really focus on how much she is eating.
He also advised that i take a stool sample to the lab to be tested for the possibility of colic.
He also examined her teeth and said they looked great.

He was worried that any disease she may have may be too far gone.

He added that if the fecal tests come back clear, then she may have to take blood test from her neck, which few vets are qualified to do.

He has phoned my own vet and explained all of this & I'm waiting on her phoning me.

I'm going to hand the poop into the vets this weekend for lab testing, but i'm starting to feel that if the poop tests show nothing up, do i really don't want to put her through anything else?
Shes so bright and spirited and an amazing little girl, but this is completely controlling her life now and she is in obvious pain a good chunk of the time. I dont even know what to do now.
Half the time shes miserable, in pain and choking and blowing food out her nose and mouth and has bad diarrhoea, but the other half she is so cheery and bright and zooming about. I don't know what to do man, like, there's no way I could make any final decision for her decision because of the good times.

I just hope to christ something shows up.
 
Oh bless her heart, that sounds so awful, I hope it shows something up that can make more sense. I'm rooting for you both still.

Come on beautiful girl x
 
Sorry it wasn't more positive news really sounds like she's up against it. I really hope something show's in the sample. If not I just wanted to say I have had bloods taken from multiple pig's in the past and all have recovered well.

Concentrate on building her weight up and take it one day at a time.
 
Thanks guys.
I finally for her to take syringe food yesterday when I mixed baby food (mango, banana and something else) in to her pellets mashed in warm water and she had been taking 5.5 ml a sitting.
I dont know if this is makin the diahrrea worse.
Sometimes her poop is literally just dirty water.
She's even choking on syringe feed sometimes.
I think these two will be my last girls, I really can't cope cope with the care they need. I do it well, but it's too mentally exhausting.
I dont know how you all cope so well, I've been so miserable and just bursting into tears all week. bleh.
 
It could be the mush as its like liquid, but she needs it, I'm really not sure.

If she's choking on the suringe feed I'd literally put the smallest amount in at a time. But she's doing well with how much she is taking.

It is exhausting and mentally draining, had little sleep lately and I've turned into the grinch before he got his heart back - well my sensitivity is up there, and I'm miserable a lot, but for this purpose we'll go with the grinch. I'm not sure I could ever do it all again either, it takes so much out of you. X
 
yeah. I've to collect poop samples over the next 3 days and take them to the vets for lab tests.

I don't think I'm gunna put her through another GA to have her teeth checked again and get blood i dont think. I'm starting to feel like It's getting too much for her. idk though, i'll just wait and see, I wish someone else could make these decisions for me.

ugh :( poor you. Yeah, it's so exhausting. It's sad though, because you only become mentally and physically exhausted looking after them if you really care and are trying your best to do everything you can, and sometimes it's too much and can stop you taking on any more pigs. But the people who don't care as much wont feel the same exhaustion and stress and they're the ones who think they're easy to look after and so keep getting them even if they're not being looked after properly. Know what I mean? I know I'm good at looking after them, and I want to always be able to save pigs who havn't had a great time, but it's really hard when things like this happen. It's kinna like if your not physically exhausted and a hysterical mess when they're sick, your obviously doing it wrong. lol.
 
Coco&Luna said:
yeah. I've to collect poop samples over the next 3 days and take them to the vets for lab tests.

I don't think I'm gunna put her through another GA to have her teeth checked again and get blood i dont think. I'm starting to feel like It's getting too much for her. idk though, i'll just wait and see, I wish someone else could make these decisions for me.

ugh :( poor you. Yeah, it's so exhausting. It's sad though, because you only become mentally and physically exhausted looking after them if you really care and are trying your best to do everything you can, and sometimes it's too much and can stop you taking on any more pigs. But the people who don't care as much wont feel the same exhaustion and stress and they're the ones who think they're easy to look after and so keep getting them even if they're not being looked after properly. Know what I mean? I know I'm good at looking after them, and I want to always be able to save pigs who havn't had a great time, but it's really hard when things like this happen. It's kinna like if your not physically exhausted and a hysterical mess when they're sick, your obviously doing it wrong. lol.
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I hope the samples show something, dependent on that would probably make the next decision for me. As I'm guessing we're not 100% sure as to what is going on?

As I personally like to try and deal with things one step at a time of possible. I refused an x-Ray twice because I didn't believe Frank would make it, and then last time he say his vet his vet was so pleased with the progress he said he no longer wanted one anyway! Phew. But obviously he's my pig and its a different situation and complications, so you need to do what you feel is right for your girlie.

The decision making is the hardest part, it always will be, but I've had to accept that one day I will have to make that decision for Frank. And that's heartbreaking, but quality over quantity. You know your pig, and also the mind state your in atm with the exhaustion won't be helping, so always go with what YOU feel is right, not what anybody else says. X

And yup that is exactly the point, nobody else really understands why your a wreck either - just a guinea pig and all that - obviously -.-. But it's the fact we love them and want to care for them and get them better that we put ourselves through this. Why we actually go to the vets etc. A family members pig was a state when I saw him (rip) but they wouldn't do anything. And I don't get that, I feel these people are so just, inconsiderate? Selfish? Idk. But yes, we are the sort of people that should have these animals and care for them, whereas they're not, yet it's experiences like this that knock us for six and make us just be like no more. My OH has said no more because it's so stressful, and time consuming and life controlling. But still, he's there caring for them everyday with me.

I hope all that makes sense, basically I agree with you x
 
The don't have a clue at all whats going on. It's all just trying to rule things out. I think she's driving my poor vet nuts, lol.
Yeah, just take it a day at a time and see how it goes.
When I press her abdomen she shrieks and tries to use her back leg to kick my hand away and starts shaking really violently now. I think the antibiotics have really messed up her stomach.
I've stopped putting the banana and mango baby food in with her pellet mash, because i just read that sugars should be eliminated when they get diarrhoea because it can make things much worse. But it was that vet Glenn I went to that told me to use it if I was struggling to get food into her and he knew how bad the diarrhoea was. oh i don't even know anymore...

Awww, lol, your OH is so cute. Have you got no further with franky boy? hows his weight just now?

Yeah, I think i'll just keep sea monkeys in future....
 
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