I was supposed to be going to Rockbourne on Sunday but on Saturday night Forest went down with colic.
I had an emergency call out and he found that the colon had displaced and hoocked itself over the spline.
He refered me to the hospital about 40mins away so they could treat him more effeciently.
The vet went through my options and we decided that surgery would not be an option for Forest as he was unlikely to survive through the surgery.
They gave him a drug to shrink his spline so that the colon could replace itself, basically they allowed him to roll and do whatever he needed to do to replace it himself.
The vet didn't give him a high survival rate and I signed a form to give my consent if they needed to PTS during the night.
I left the vets at 1 in the morning.
I went back the next morning, Forest had improved slightly but they were still waiting for the colon to replace at this point and they still weren't very positive.
Forest started to show signs of improvement and the vet was sure he was feeling better as Forest had tried to remove the vets knee caps. He was then given a 50% survival rate.
He survived and an exam showed that the colon had pretty much replaced and he was allowed to eat and drink under the observation of the vets to make sure his intestines stood up to the food etc.
Well, today he came home. He seems fine and from what the nurses have said he has been a handful.
The vet was great and even at ridiculus times at night he was jolly and reassured me that he would do everything he could to pull him through.
Through it all everytime I saw Forest I told him to fight. I believe he did, I also believe it was a miracle that he survived.
When I left today the vet just said that he has been very lucky and he hopes it won't reoccur.
Can't believe that I thought about selling him a couple of weeks ago. I took almost losing him to make me see how much I love him.
I had said my goodbyes aswell.
I'm just so thankful to the vet for pulling him through, he never complained about having to be working all the time and almost getting hurt and he stayed jolly all the way through.
Thank God he pulled through, really don't know what I would do without him.
If you got through all that then a whole plateful of cookies!
Will do updates of his progress now he is home as still keeping an eye out just in case!
I had an emergency call out and he found that the colon had displaced and hoocked itself over the spline.
He refered me to the hospital about 40mins away so they could treat him more effeciently.
The vet went through my options and we decided that surgery would not be an option for Forest as he was unlikely to survive through the surgery.
They gave him a drug to shrink his spline so that the colon could replace itself, basically they allowed him to roll and do whatever he needed to do to replace it himself.
The vet didn't give him a high survival rate and I signed a form to give my consent if they needed to PTS during the night.
I left the vets at 1 in the morning.
I went back the next morning, Forest had improved slightly but they were still waiting for the colon to replace at this point and they still weren't very positive.
Forest started to show signs of improvement and the vet was sure he was feeling better as Forest had tried to remove the vets knee caps. He was then given a 50% survival rate.
He survived and an exam showed that the colon had pretty much replaced and he was allowed to eat and drink under the observation of the vets to make sure his intestines stood up to the food etc.
Well, today he came home. He seems fine and from what the nurses have said he has been a handful.
The vet was great and even at ridiculus times at night he was jolly and reassured me that he would do everything he could to pull him through.
Through it all everytime I saw Forest I told him to fight. I believe he did, I also believe it was a miracle that he survived.
When I left today the vet just said that he has been very lucky and he hopes it won't reoccur.
Can't believe that I thought about selling him a couple of weeks ago. I took almost losing him to make me see how much I love him.
I had said my goodbyes aswell.
I'm just so thankful to the vet for pulling him through, he never complained about having to be working all the time and almost getting hurt and he stayed jolly all the way through.
Thank God he pulled through, really don't know what I would do without him.
If you got through all that then a whole plateful of cookies!
Will do updates of his progress now he is home as still keeping an eye out just in case!
xxx
