Doeylicious
Adult Guinea Pig
Noodles went in for her spay operation this morning to remove her girly bits and the large ovarian cysts she had developed.
After a slightly tearful drop off and a rather stressful morning at work, I rang at 1.30pm to be told she had woken up very quickly, was moving about slowly, and enjoying some veg and also some dandelions the vet nurses had picked for her and Whiskey (Whisks was in to have her urine monitored and keep Noodles company, but refused to pee when needed all day...typical lol) and I could pick her up this evening.
I was also told Ann (my vet) had kept the cysts for me to see (she knows I am fascinated by these things)
So at 6pm I was presented with the below:
...just a bit big!
The combined weight of both cysts was around 300g, which was about a quarter of her bodyweight. The cysts grew quite rapidly over a few weeks, and while her symptoms responded well to hormone injections, Ann and I decided we needed to get them out while she was in good enough general health to recover from the op. The dark one was the left cyst, this did have blood in it hence the colour but we have decided not to send them off for testing as everything is out now. The cysts obviously mask her actual ovaries as they are so big. The greyish purple stems coming off these are the sacks baby piggies would live in if a pig were pregnant, and then you have the tubes to the vagina. I find this incredibly fascinating and wish I had seen the boys balls as well, lol.
Noodles is doing very well, has not eaten much but that's to be expected, I am syringe feeding as and when but being a bossy, self sufficient pig she isn't impressed by this and would rather eat Excel herbage lol. Her wound is equally impressive, when it has healed a bit more I will get a pic but at the moment she isn't up to it. Whiskey has stayed with her and is being a good nurse pig, apart from wheeking all the way through Eastenders rolleyes
I have a week off work to keep an eye on her, hence being up at 3am! Am hopeful she will make a full and speedy recovery
After a slightly tearful drop off and a rather stressful morning at work, I rang at 1.30pm to be told she had woken up very quickly, was moving about slowly, and enjoying some veg and also some dandelions the vet nurses had picked for her and Whiskey (Whisks was in to have her urine monitored and keep Noodles company, but refused to pee when needed all day...typical lol) and I could pick her up this evening.
I was also told Ann (my vet) had kept the cysts for me to see (she knows I am fascinated by these things)
So at 6pm I was presented with the below:
...just a bit big!
The combined weight of both cysts was around 300g, which was about a quarter of her bodyweight. The cysts grew quite rapidly over a few weeks, and while her symptoms responded well to hormone injections, Ann and I decided we needed to get them out while she was in good enough general health to recover from the op. The dark one was the left cyst, this did have blood in it hence the colour but we have decided not to send them off for testing as everything is out now. The cysts obviously mask her actual ovaries as they are so big. The greyish purple stems coming off these are the sacks baby piggies would live in if a pig were pregnant, and then you have the tubes to the vagina. I find this incredibly fascinating and wish I had seen the boys balls as well, lol.
Noodles is doing very well, has not eaten much but that's to be expected, I am syringe feeding as and when but being a bossy, self sufficient pig she isn't impressed by this and would rather eat Excel herbage lol. Her wound is equally impressive, when it has healed a bit more I will get a pic but at the moment she isn't up to it. Whiskey has stayed with her and is being a good nurse pig, apart from wheeking all the way through Eastenders rolleyes
I have a week off work to keep an eye on her, hence being up at 3am! Am hopeful she will make a full and speedy recovery
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