Kula's Spay
Yay it's good and she's awake now and I should be home with her within several hours!
Hm, I haven't mentioned it before, have I... I ended up having a local vet do it. There's not a whole lot of opportunity to do gpigs around here, which is why I would have preferred a specialist with experience with more patients, but my new vet here has done gpigs for many years and his cavy/rabbit surgeries seem to have been done well, even if there weren't a gazillion of them. There certainly isn't a direct correlation between quality and quantity anyway. Quantity of practice is just useful for something like an ovariohysterectomy.
I had a full page of questions printed out on Monday and he went over all of them so I think I have a pretty good idea of what to do now; I'm very grateful about the reassurance and education. I think he's a wonderful vet and I wish I had a way of showing my appreciation.
No endoscopy, just had a third ultrasound done (bringing Kona for comparison) a while ago, and it left no doubt that Kula's uterus was abnormal. Kona's uterus did serve as a healthy control, but her ovarian cysts were worse than Kula's, even though she had no obvious symptoms and they were not palpable. Odd, eh? Anyway, the problem was obvious enough by then that local vet could figure it out from u/s. I feel bad about not having it diagnosed earlier when the signs weren't so clear, but I hope it hasn't been too late.
Anyway, "everything went very well" in the vet's words (he left voicemail for us). One ovary was cystic as we saw in the last u/s. The uterus was thick as we saw from two u/s so it's being sent out for biopsy as we planned and I really hope it's not cancer that's spread. I cleaned and set up the 2x4 grid cage for her, facing the now-4x6 grid run that Kona has to herself now, and I hope Kula does well in it.
I should get going and put in hay and pellets and stuff (already have fresh water) for her so everything's ready!
Hm, I haven't mentioned it before, have I... I ended up having a local vet do it. There's not a whole lot of opportunity to do gpigs around here, which is why I would have preferred a specialist with experience with more patients, but my new vet here has done gpigs for many years and his cavy/rabbit surgeries seem to have been done well, even if there weren't a gazillion of them. There certainly isn't a direct correlation between quality and quantity anyway. Quantity of practice is just useful for something like an ovariohysterectomy.
I had a full page of questions printed out on Monday and he went over all of them so I think I have a pretty good idea of what to do now; I'm very grateful about the reassurance and education. I think he's a wonderful vet and I wish I had a way of showing my appreciation.
No endoscopy, just had a third ultrasound done (bringing Kona for comparison) a while ago, and it left no doubt that Kula's uterus was abnormal. Kona's uterus did serve as a healthy control, but her ovarian cysts were worse than Kula's, even though she had no obvious symptoms and they were not palpable. Odd, eh? Anyway, the problem was obvious enough by then that local vet could figure it out from u/s. I feel bad about not having it diagnosed earlier when the signs weren't so clear, but I hope it hasn't been too late.
Anyway, "everything went very well" in the vet's words (he left voicemail for us). One ovary was cystic as we saw in the last u/s. The uterus was thick as we saw from two u/s so it's being sent out for biopsy as we planned and I really hope it's not cancer that's spread. I cleaned and set up the 2x4 grid cage for her, facing the now-4x6 grid run that Kona has to herself now, and I hope Kula does well in it.
I should get going and put in hay and pellets and stuff (already have fresh water) for her so everything's ready!
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