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Help.. rat medical :-\
13 years ago
If y'ever wanted to get a commission from me, now would be a good time to. We've racked up hundreds and hundreds of dollars in medical care for the rats over the last few months, and it looks like we're in for a new wave of it. Here's what happened:
Toki and Dar were my two remaining rats after Loki died. Then recently, Dar died too. Suddenly, Toki's immune system just went through the floor, likely due to the depression. All the things that were bothering him suddenly got worse. He'd had a bumble on his back right foot for a while, and that suddenly ballooned and became so large he was walking on the bumble and his toes didn't touch the ground until he rolled forward into the next step. It did it in a week or so. We decided to take him into the vet, and they couldn't get any fluid out of it, so they were afraid it may have been a cancerous mass rather than like a blister or somesuch.. that was friday. Tuesday we took him in to have surgery to remove it. He went under once, they took off the bumble and sent it off to the lab (we're still waiting on the results, it has to go to an "exotics" lab), and sutured him up. Then they had to put him back under because he was reacting poorly or something and they took out the internal sutures. He came home, looked okay though his foot was swollen. Then last night I noticed his foot was really red, like the skin was stretching too much. it was red and sore looking inbetween his toes etc, and his foot kept secreting this weird clear substance that was lightly sticky. Turns out that was Serum. As in blood serum. Basically it turns out his blood was getting down into the limb just fine, but not coming back up. I don't know what that means functionally, but practically it means his foot wept.
We took him in to the vet because they heard that and wanted to see him. The vet *gasped*. I have never in my entire life with animals seen a vet gasp before. She was really upset that his foot was reacting that way. She's been a vet for quite a while, and she's never seen any animal respond like that. So now he's going to be staying the night and most of the day, which worries me. I hate leaving him alone. They're going to take out the last of the sutures, and since it's only been two days since the surgery it's likely to be messy as frak. This last visit didn't cost anything since it was a followup, thankfully, but this could very easily snowball into something much bigger. If they can't get his foot under control they may have to amputate it. We're all hoping it doesn't go there, both for the obvious reasons and also the fact that he's an older rat, and we don't know how he'll heal.
Anyway, the point of this is if you want to <s>throw money at me</s> commish me, now would be a good time. Check out my commission spread http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4173812/ for prices. Thanks for reading!
Toki and Dar were my two remaining rats after Loki died. Then recently, Dar died too. Suddenly, Toki's immune system just went through the floor, likely due to the depression. All the things that were bothering him suddenly got worse. He'd had a bumble on his back right foot for a while, and that suddenly ballooned and became so large he was walking on the bumble and his toes didn't touch the ground until he rolled forward into the next step. It did it in a week or so. We decided to take him into the vet, and they couldn't get any fluid out of it, so they were afraid it may have been a cancerous mass rather than like a blister or somesuch.. that was friday. Tuesday we took him in to have surgery to remove it. He went under once, they took off the bumble and sent it off to the lab (we're still waiting on the results, it has to go to an "exotics" lab), and sutured him up. Then they had to put him back under because he was reacting poorly or something and they took out the internal sutures. He came home, looked okay though his foot was swollen. Then last night I noticed his foot was really red, like the skin was stretching too much. it was red and sore looking inbetween his toes etc, and his foot kept secreting this weird clear substance that was lightly sticky. Turns out that was Serum. As in blood serum. Basically it turns out his blood was getting down into the limb just fine, but not coming back up. I don't know what that means functionally, but practically it means his foot wept.
We took him in to the vet because they heard that and wanted to see him. The vet *gasped*. I have never in my entire life with animals seen a vet gasp before. She was really upset that his foot was reacting that way. She's been a vet for quite a while, and she's never seen any animal respond like that. So now he's going to be staying the night and most of the day, which worries me. I hate leaving him alone. They're going to take out the last of the sutures, and since it's only been two days since the surgery it's likely to be messy as frak. This last visit didn't cost anything since it was a followup, thankfully, but this could very easily snowball into something much bigger. If they can't get his foot under control they may have to amputate it. We're all hoping it doesn't go there, both for the obvious reasons and also the fact that he's an older rat, and we don't know how he'll heal.
Anyway, the point of this is if you want to <s>throw money at me</s> commish me, now would be a good time. Check out my commission spread http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4173812/ for prices. Thanks for reading!
