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What would you do? UTI/Cystitis

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Hi Hun

as per out teleconflab tonight:

a) well done!....You're doing everything you can....and some!

b) This is "just" a post-op complication.......which is actually quite common given the poor wee lassie has had her bladder cut open (sorry to be so gross but it's important people know) This type of op always has risks...(which we've talked about) but infection IS solvable so the situation currently isn;t life threatening. You;ve been alert to it, taken the cultures etc - well done!

c) There ARE anitbioitics to sort this infection out...once the results come back on what the bugs actually are and their antiboitic sensitivities.

d) You have NOTHING to reproach yourself for...and I'm sure that once the right ab's are given Molly will start to pick up.

e) You have a bluidy good cavy savvy vet!

Big hugs...very sorry that Molly is not one of the "few pigs" that bounce back after such an invasive procedure. Just make sure you've put your own oxygen mask on ;)

You know where I am...!

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Sending more healing vibes her way. *big hugs to you*
x
 
Thank you all and esp Pebbles who had a very tearful conversation with me last night !

I do appreciate all the support and advice and its just so much easier to get through this with it.

Have just been up north this mornng for work and my word leaving her this morning was a wrench. However the good news is she seems to have picked up again and even put on a gramm last night. Not a lot but lots to me! I know we need those antibiotics but she really is fighting this thing hard I think she knows we are all trying to help her xoxo

THANKYOU all of you I don't know where we'd be with out you!
 
Sadly Molly lost her fight yesterday. I have not been posting on here as I did'nt want to jinx her and hoped to have some happy news but alas it was not to be.

Molly got a serious post op infection which was resistant to all but a human antibiotic which meant having an injection every 8 hours. I spent a long time deciding what was best for her and whether this was fair on her and after many discussions with knowledgeable people we decided to guive her another chance (the only other option was to pts).

She spent ten days at the animal hospital, they were wonderful and enjoyed having her and her friend to stay and they were very much loved and cared for as I would have done. I visited every couple of days and the last few times she was my old Molly, very cheeky, vocal and happy. eating and doing well.

I was supposed to pick her up on Monday (yesterday) when I got a worried call from the vet when I was at work saying she had gone rapidly down hill. Her infection had come back and also a 7mm bladderstone. So we took the hard decision to have her PTS.

They were wonderful at the vets and all the nurses gave her a tearful farewell...which upset me even more. They then let me say goodbye.

I as many of us, have lost guineas over the years but I can honestly say that this has been one of the hardest. I will post a tribute to her (Molly) today on the Rainbown Bridge section. I hope you have a chance to read it as she truly was a once in lifetime guinea and to say she will be terribly missed is a considerable understatement. I am in pieces at the moment and struggling with her loss but I guess as we all know, we have to focus on the good times and the wonderful life we shared together. Just take a minute today to give your guineas an extra hug as you just never know what fate has in store.

RIP Molly you are were a truly very special beautiful girl. Goodbye my angel. xx
 
I am so very sorry to hear this. I know how much you have been through with your girls, and it just doesn't seem fair.

She was so loved and you've done so much for her! It's so hard to lose those special pigs. You are in my thoughts today, and I'll be looking out for your tribute later. xxxxxxxxx
 
I am so so sorry to hear this sad news. Sleep tight beautiful angel.
 
You are all so lovely thank you.

Yes I thought we were through the woods, I really did, we all did. The vet was absolutely devastated. It just does not seem fair at all and I keep going over in my head that perhaps I should not have had her operated on when we knew she had a stone and why did I choose to send her away for ten days for those injections but I don't think I had an option there was nothing else other than PTS and I guess I had to give her a chance. I just wish I could have told her why. I hope she did'nt think I had deserted her, that is killing me at the moment, but I did go and see her every two days so I hope she understood.

You just carry on beating yourself up don't you? She was the last one I thought I would lose this year. I never ever imagined it. I just remember that feeling of cold horror when I saw the blood for the first time that day.
 
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You are all so lovely thank you.

Yes I thought we were through the woods, I really did, we all did. The vet was absolutely devastated. It just does not seem fair at all and I keep going over in my head that perhaps I should not have had her operated on when we knew she had a stone and why did I choose to send her away for ten days for those injections but I don't think I had an option there was nothing else other than PTS and I guess I had to give her a chance. I just wish I could have told her why. I hope she did'nt think I had deserted her, that is killing me at the moment, but I did go and see her every two days so I hope she understood.

You just carry on beating yourself up don't you? She was the last one I thought I would lose this year. I never ever imagined it. I just remember that feeling of cold horror when I saw the blood for the first time that day.
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Please don't beat yourself up over this. You did everything right for her, every treatment option you chose was to give her the best chance of recovery.

We had one of our piggies PTS last monday, the guilt is only now subsiding. The guilt you feel is a natural part of the grief process, the guilt isn't always rational and you always feel that maybe you should have done something different - even though nothing else could have been done.

Situations and choices play over in your head, but you made every correct decision for Molly, you loved her and that is the reason why you would never have made the wrong decision for her.
Everything you did was for her best interests and in the end you helped her across the bridge when she needed you to make that choice for her.

Molly would have known how much you loved and cared for her. I am so sorry *massive hugs*
 
Thank you Sport Billy, I do appreciate your kind words and you are right, I am riddled with guilt right now. I just wish you could talk to them and let them know how much you loved them. Her eyes were so sad yesterday she just had lost the will to live and I just wish I had been there for her the whole time.
 
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