mastrocastro
Junior Guinea Pig
Hello... So I lost my only piggy on Saturday morning, which died an awful death, my guess is that it was a stroke. He was 5 years old. He had been in bad shape all week. He would eat less, he wouldn't make a sound, he would rarely come out of his hole, and when I put his on my chest for cuddles he would barely move and he couldn't even stand on his legs-- he would just lay his whole body on me, not in a comfy way like he usually did, but as if he coulnd't do otherwise. On Thursday, I had him take a bath, which seemed to have shocked him quite a bit (definetaly not as much as I initially though though--I'll get to that in a bit*). The next day, he would act strangely all day, and at about 23:30 Friday night he would start having a seizure... He fell on his side (and that's how he stayed till the end), his legs twitching, and sometimes his head as well, and he wouldn't make a sound at all, exept one tiny moan of sadness shortly after it began... A couple of hours later, the twitching would become less and less intense, until it ultimately stopped completely and he was basically paralyzed. At 4am, he made a very odd and heavy sound (as if he was struggling to take a breath) three times. At that point, all he would do was open his mouth very slowly, blink, and breathe. At 4:30, his heart stopped, and he passed away on my chest... Yesterday I went to my village and burried him in the garden inside a coffin made out of cardboard. And shortly after I started getting paranoid, and hence the reason I'm posting here under that title... Since yesterday I have been freaking out, thinking "what if he was just in a coma and I burried him alive?". I mean, he seemed obviously dead, he had his mouth open, he didn't seem to have taken any breath, and I couldn't sense any heartbeat. The thing is, being in a deep coma (at least a human deep coma) is a very similar situation, and therefore it's hard to tell the difference. Sometimes (mostly in the past), even doctors can't tell the difference, and we even have cases of (... I think the English word is) thanatopsis on people! Is it possible to have burried my piggy alive?
*Here's the tribute note I posted on Reddit some time after he passed away: In my two previous posts (linked in that one) the seizure is being described with more detail, since I posted those while it was happening.
*Here's the tribute note I posted on Reddit some time after he passed away: In my two previous posts (linked in that one) the seizure is being described with more detail, since I posted those while it was happening.