We went into town yesterday and, as per the vet’s instructions, took a sample from Fiver to have it tested. They told me it would be about an hour, we had some shopping to do so I said we’d call back to see if he needed more meds.
So That was 4 PM…about 5:30 I’m finally done with my errands and nothing from the vet. I call them back since I know they’re going to close in about half an hour. The receptionist tells me they haven’t gotten to it yet. Huh?
I tell her I’m about to leave town and need to know, could they please run it, I know it takes 20 minutes…she suddenly switches me over to the lab tech who tells me it WAS tested and looks normal. HUHWHAT?
SO why is Fiver still having messy cecals and a brown liquid under them? It’s like he wasn’t treated at all. The tech intimated there was some ‘adjustment’ period now that he’s off the metronidazole. Does that make sense to anyone?
I don’t think they tested it in time or didn’t do it at all. Now if I want further treatment for him I’ll have to make a whole new appointment and start over form the beginning. What rot.

In the meantime we’ve had a raging blizzard hit us for the last two nights with no sign of letup till Saturday/evening. At least a foot of snow (more with the wind I’m sure) and 50 MPH gusts. Not typical for this time of year in the Interior, at least since I’ve lived here. We’ve lost power at least five or six tiems today and I can hear the gale screaming out there. 0_o
Please hold some good weather thoughts, I may have to drive Mimzy in by myself (I’m not the best at driving in snow) on Sunday due to my hubby having other commitments. I couldn’t postpone his appointment because next weekend the vet will be closed while they move their building.
On a better note, he doesn’t seem to have been peeing in his pen for the last few nights. I’m hoping it was just a territory thing or he was crabby with me for not getting up earlier.

I’ll be talking to their regular vet Sunday. I’m taking in another sample. He’s still messy (dropped at least 3 cecal smears this morning alone) and since the storm messed up hubby’s plans he’ll be driving us to town tomorrow. Fiver had such bad gas last night I could hear his tummy gurgling across the room…I thought it was mine! 0_o Two doses of mylicon (.6ml each) put a stop to it in about two hours, but I felt so bad for him. Oddly, he was still spunky enough to come out of his pen for his meds, do some binkies and eat the fresh hay I handed him. Go figure. Maybe for him, tummy noises (even ginormous ones) are a good thing. He was the worst off when I could hear nothing at all, but those big ones spooked me a little last night.

Mimzy has had to deal with .6 ml of benadryl each night for the last three nights. It seems to help his stuffy nose fine, but doesn’t do anything for the rapid fire sneezing.

I know what you mean LPT. Even my little Yorkie has gurgling tum this morning…I’m looking up the dosage for mylicon for her now…will it never stop?? >.< (I'm going to blame daddy for feeding her too much steak.)
I hope Bindi and Stormy will be better soon. Funny, yeah, how it’s both our lops and our rexies. I assume the Divalicious Olivia is healthy as a horse, right? Pip is doing great but for another shed that’s making her cross, and even she’s left a few cecals the last few days. I have to overdo the oat hay when she’s shedding and sometimes it just gets to be too many calories, I think…or too coarse. Either way, she seems to shine through just fine no matter how bad off the boys get, thank God.

The storm is now over, boy it was sure still blowing last night and I couldn’t find my porch steps this morning! This means we’ll have very cold temps as the front clears out. -40’s F forecast for the next few nights…..yuck!
The buns have seen the power go out before, it doesn’t seem to bug them much. But at the start of the blizzard, Fiver was thumping in his pen early that morning and we had to assume it was because he could hear the wind howling outside. Poor bub.

Thanks K&K! I got a bit of a break, hub is not doing what he was scheduled for tomorrow and so will be driving me in. Phew.
It was so lovely outdoors, even with all the wind, since it was a southern gale and brought the temps up to almost 40 +F. Now the cloud cover is all gone and the temps are dropping so quickly that our beams are cracking. 0_o
I think everyone in North America is MORE than ready for spring to get here….wasn’t it supposed to be early, Mr. Groundhog?? ~_~

Thanks Pam. *peeks back outside* Sorry…no spring yet.
Well the verdicts are in:
Fiver-nothing wrong with his cecals as far as infections are concerned. My vet even said she thought they were formed correctly. (not, it was a slimy little ball of toothpaste-like goo, he hasn’t had a ‘grape cluster’ since he began the metronidazole, and that wore off quickly) I asked her if it could be his teeth causing tummy trouble and she said no. She suggested I shave his butt if he’s getting messy and just strive to keep him clean. *sigh*
Mimzy: urinalysis shows nothing wrong (two puddles in the pen this morning) and fecals are fine. (Fiver’s fecals too) But he does have molar spurs again, so he’s scheduled for a filing on March 7 with the vet who did Fiver’s last time. She was pretty good, I just was frustrated that she did not give pain meds, so I’ll have to be obnoxious and demand them for Mimz.
At that time he’ll have a blood test to determine he’s completely healthy, she said something about his urine density being possibly low, but not to worry about it. She’ll be checking his kidney levels on the CBC.
He had a nail trim which he was stellar for, (he sat still for the otoscope as well…wow!) with the exception of his left rear foot, which is the one that he holds funny and seems to be paining him more than the others. She agreed he is getting older and that may be why.
So I guess I just give Mimzy benadryl when he gets really snotty and wheezy and hope for the best with his filing. I realized he is truly grinding his teeth more lately, as he did a purr for me last night that was so quiet I could barely hear it. I mentally compared it with one of the louder grinds and I’m glad my suspicions about his teeth were confirmed. Otherwise I think the hub would’ve been more put out than he already was, as he is allergic to the fur to a point now that he can’t even be in the car with the animals without sneezing, barring Jenna who does not set him off at all.
And oh goody…another early trip in tomorrow with my kitty…oh boy oh boy. >.< They're BOTH gonna be HATIN' me! 0_o;