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« on: January 15, 2016, 10:40:09 AM »
Thank you for your reply. They checked him for an upper respiratory infection but he showed no signs of one. The vet said that the weeping eye may have been from needing the dental that sometimes the tear ducts can be blocked. He was on an antibiotic though because there was some blood in his urine so she suspected a mild kidney infection and if anything else was going on it would help with it too. He went back to the vet Wednesday due to still not eating after the first filing and she said the spur had grown back ever so slightly but that was due to not eating pellets. His X-rays were prefect apart from the small foreign body noted in his gut. Since his first filing which was the first of December his appetite is off. I soften his pellets and give him that along with critical care. He doesn't eat his hay for me and he only eats around five pellets a night. I think he's gone off his food because he still loves his treats so if he wasn't able to eat be it from his teeth or an inability to chew from the suspected lead poisoning would he be eating at all?
His weight is 555g at the moment. He goes from 570g to 555g and that is worrying me. As for the limbs everything else is ok apart from the paw he injured. Last Thursday his paw was very swollen, red and hot but now the swelling has gone right down. I don't know if I would say it's nerve damage due to lead poisoning because I personally think he either injured it in the vets or on the way home in my car. He's his happy little self and is well able to move around. He wants out of his cage but due to the suspected injury I have kept him in a smaller cage for rest but if he had his way he would be out of the cage running.
I'm hoping his paw is not related to toxicity but the vet said it's treatable. I have to closely watch him and bring him back next week. She said if there's no change she will do blood work and X-ray. She said the foreign object in his gut may be no harm but because he's still not back to his healthy self she can't rule it out. She said she has seen foreign objects in small animals before and it was never anything to worry about because they do eat whatever they find. I'm honestly hoping he didn't eat anything with lead in it and I'm annoyed with myself because I'm always so careful with him so I don't know what he could have eaten. He pooping normal aswell so there is no signs of an obstruction but I'm closely watching that.
I'm just worried that there's no way forward only to say good bye to my best friend but what's killing me about that is other than him not eating he's happy and jumping around. His mood is still the same, he still wants to play and he's happy. I just feel lost with him. I don't know what the best thing to do is at this point. It's a week since he was in for X-rays so he should be eating by himself at this point. All I want is for him to start eating again by himself.
