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Morwenna has had a spaying operation yesterday!

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I am very relieved that my 5 year old TEAS adoptee has come through the op and the recovery well.
Even though she is sore and rather sorry for herself today, she is eating fully on her own.

Morwenna had a hard ovarian cyst of the kind that is highly likely to become cancerous at some point, so a spay was the only option.

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Unfortunately, we had to re-organise everything on short notice around my husband having come down hard with a bad cold/summer flu (which he has now passed onto me; no thanks for the gift)!
Morwenna and her paw-holding sister Mererid have stayed overnight at the clinic and we went this morning to pick them up since my husband wasn't fit enough to make the journey twice in a day and I didn't particularly care for having to pay even more to bring a freshly operated piggy home from Northampton by train and taxi during rush hour.

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I hope that Morwenna is going to feel better with every passing day. The first couple of days are always hardest because of the soreness and the hangover when the operation drugs run out until the healing process is kicking in fully. But Morwenna should hopefully be healed up without any complications within 2 weeks.
I have taken out the hay tray and place the hay (which Morwenna loves to sleep on) on some newspaper instead in order to protect the operation scar and to not jar her sow belly until the wound healing process is fully underway.
 
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Sending lots of recovery vibes and love to your little girl x x
 
Glad the operation went well for Morwenna and that she has a speedy recovery x And I hope your cold clears up soon @Wiebke
 
Glad to hear the operation went well! :)
Hope Morwenna feels better soon! x And I hope you and your husband feel better as well!
 
Glad Morwenna is doing well. Hope she’s back to her normal self quickly.
Phoebe was spayed last week for ovarian cysts and it is an anxious time as they recover.
Hope both you and your husband recover from your summer colds too
 
Sadly Morwenna didn't have a good night and has stopped eating (except for grass), so I am currently supplement feeding to stabilise her weight in the first place. She is eating fresh grass, but not much else.

At least she is starting to be brighter and is looking less in pain. She is now able to clean herself again, which she wasn't yesterday.
Hopefully she is going to pick up with every passing day as her discomfort and the stress of her vet trip are fading.
 
Wiebke said:
Sadly Morwenna didn't have a good night and has stopped eating (except for grass), so I am currently supplement feeding to stabilise her weight in the first place. She is eating fresh grass, but not much else.

At least she is starting to be brighter and is looking less in pain. She is now able to clean herself again, which she wasn't yesterday.
Hopefully she is going to pick up with every passing day as her discomfort and the stress of her vet trip are fading.
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What dose of metacam are you giving?
 
furryfriends (TEAS) said:
What dose of metacam are you giving?
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0.3 ml dog metacam twice daily and 0.3 ml zantac twice daily as per prescription - she's currently just below 800g.
I did give her 0.4 ml on the first evening when her weight was still higher and she was in real pain.
I have added emeprid today to stimulate her appetite as much as possible. So far, she hasn't lost any more weight during the day, so I hope that we are past the very worst, can stabilise and then concentrating on building up once the inside has settled down and is healing up.

She's been less painful this afternoon, more mobile and less touchy about being handled, so I am hopeful that things are slowly going in the right direction. Morwenna is the worst affected of Athena's babies when it comes to her prey animal instincts/high stress level default set, which hasn't helped. She's shedding a lot of hair - a typical sign of a stress reaction.
 
Thankfully, Morwenna seem to be over the worst of her pain, and is starting to relax her body again.

The wound and genital area (which looked a bit puffy yesterday) are looking good and she is also no longer fussy about not being touched, so I think we are over the really rough patch now.
 
Just catching up on threads now, good news on the operation, hope you all start to feel better very soon. I would find it incredibly daunting to have any sow spayed but needs must I understand, good job she’s in amazing care hands.
 
Mother Hubbard said:
Just catching up on threads now, good news on the operation, hope you all start to feel better very soon. I would find it incredibly daunting to have any sow spayed but needs must I understand, good job she’s in amazing care hands.
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Morwenna has thankfully been able to hold her lower weight yesterday and overnight with a little help from me, so we have made it through the very worst of it now.

The healing process is now underway, and Morwenna is brighter and better in herself and has started to eat hay again, supplemented by fresh grass from the garden.

On the downside, I have caught my hub's nasty cold badly, too, after all the recent stress of looking after him and Morwenna's op and post-op, so I won't be able to be around as much until I have recovered myself and am no longer feeling as 'weebly' (week and wobbly) as I currently do.
 
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