Here we are 4 days post surgery and Bella is still unwell. I cant remember what I blogged last time so apologies if i am repeating myself at all.
Weds Bella had her spay op and came home at 6pm looking very sorry for herself and still under the influence of the anesthetic. We had a very tense night as she was to keep her cone on her neck and this prevented her from getting comfy and by 3am she was up and miserable and so I came down and sat with her and she just kept standing and sitting, standing and falling over and wriggling and wriggling. She finally fell asleep about 11AM!!
Thursday she perked up a little and took some boiled chicken again and seemed a little better with the cone on, however I noticed she'd yet to have a drink and I offered ice cubes but she refused these also. So I used the water which I had boiled the chicken in to give her a drink and thankfully she took some but only off the spoon by hand!! Spoilt madam!!
Thursday pm she picked up again about 90mins after her 24hrly painkiller and became very cuddly and wanting to jump up on the sofa with us. So after snuggling on the sofa until about 1am I put her collar back on (much to her disgust) and left her to sleep until 7am when I came down and she was laying on her bed looking fed up :(
She has then spent since Friday AM until today (sunday afternoon) asleep!! We took her for a check up saturday and mentioned how sleepy she has been and little she is eating and drinking and she still has a temp of 39.1 (should be 37) lost weight since weds and just generally looking fed up so vet increased painkillers to get us through the weekend and we go back monday evening for another check up.
As soon as we got her home she went to sleep on her bed and didnt move until that evening and only then to go to the loo and have some food and painkiller.
I got so worried that I took her up to bed with us and she slept most of the night ok until 5am when i woke to find her standing over my head!! She woke up about 9am and came down very reluctantly for a wee and some breakfast and meds and has been asleep ever since-its 1420pm now!
Ive rung the vet up as she was oncall this weekend and she has said to keep her resting at home and tomorrow when we go in she will take bloods and see if everything is ok. It could be an adhesion of scar tissue forming or it could be the infection is getting out of control and we are changing her painkillers and antibiotics as its been 6 days of them prior to surgery and no better for them!! Ive got to try and get her to eat as much as possible and keep drinking and just let her rest up.
So worried about her and just hope it will all be ok, will update tomorrow after appointment x
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