Norbie's Health Issue

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Talishan
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Post   » Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:48 am


What pain med(s) did they give you and what dose did they tell you to give her?

Sakura's surgery and aftercare is textbook. You want Norbie's to be as much like that as possible. Please don't tell me they sent her home with no pain med.

Tracis
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Post   » Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:09 pm


How is Norbie today?

I believe that camende mentioned that Norbie has Metacam.

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camende
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Post   » Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:13 pm


She is on Metacam 1/5mg/ml and I am giving her 0.12ml per day. (0.18mg).

Norbie was 0.934kg at the time of surgery...and the usual dose is 0.2mg/kg so that means she should be getting 0.1868mg of Metacam per day. Its good to know my Vet can calculate the correct dose.

Norbie is doing well. She is moving around the cage more. I have not seen her drinking from the water bottle but it is down from when I left this morning and my husband said he saw her drinking.


Documentatio of Weight:

934 the morning OF Surgery..10-24-2011

874g 9:00Am, 10-25-2011

862g 6:30am , 10-26-2011
856g 6:00pm, 10-26-2011


I am a little concerned with her weight loss but she is just 48 hours post surgery so I know that the weight loss is to be expected. ALso, I do not know how much the cyst was. The Vet said it was large and dense. I am figuring that maybe 30g was the cyst.

She IS eating and drinking which is a huge relief. She is eating more Hay then anything. But, I did get her to eat Pellets (not out of the bowl but I just put them on the fleece and she seemed happy to discover them)

I know its weird but I wonder if she was in the cage with the other girls, if there would be more "competition" for the food so she would eat more. She is certainly always one to come to the cage and chomp on the bars to get my attention.

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camende
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Post   » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:29 pm


Here's a picture of Norbie enjoying some Radicchio this evening.

I brought Willow over to the quarentine cage and Norbie tried to climb through the bars to get to her. She really misses the other piggies! Maybe I can consider putting her in the cage for a visit or doing some floortime with them. What do you think?

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gvstate01

Post   » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:36 pm


I didn't know you had them separated. After surgery my pigs always go back to their cage, vet says it helps with recovery.

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camende
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Post   » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:29 pm


I only separated them because Bella is a spaz and I was in the GP room feeding them and she ran right into Norbie side and the cyst started to ooze/bleed. I was worried that they would hurt her.

The Vet said that I should separate her for a week or so.

But, I think after seeing how she reacted to Willow that I should put her back in the cage with the other girls. It will be harder to monitor her food and water intake (and her poops, they are still small and shaped thin and curly-its hard to describe but they are not normal yet)

I need to change the girls cage in the morning. I will do that and then put Norbie in on the clean bedding and see how it goes.

Tracis
Let Sleeping Pigs Lie

Post   » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:34 pm


Norbie looks so cute. :)

I've seen the type of poop that you are describing; Sakura had those. They cleared up after she started eating more.

Do any of your girls like to chew on things? You'll want to make sure they they don't remove Norbie's stitches for her.

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camende
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Post   » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:48 pm


I think if anyone would chew it would be Norbie. She used to barber Rosie. Rosie had long hair and I swear, Norbie would eat it like spaghetti.

Norbie is really the piggie who checks everyone out and makes sure they are ok. She's also the piggie that moves all the cozies together so she can be close to the other girls. So, I know she misses them!

But, I work til 9pm tomorrow night so I won't be home to monitor her.

I don't want to put her in for a "visit" either and then disrupt her by putting her back in quarantine.

I'm off Friday-Sunday so I could probably put her back on friday and monitor her all weekend.

Talishan
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Post   » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:20 am


Is there any way you can split part of the cage off and put Norbie in with just a gridwall between her and her cagemates?

Alternatively, if you have her in a petstore cage to minimize moving around, if you can, just put the whole cage inside her normal cage. The others will walk around it and talk to her and chew on it to get her out. ;-)

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camende
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Post   » Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:33 am


I could probably figure out a way to split the cage. The quarantine cage is probably too big to put inside the cage. It is a store bought cage but it is slightly smaller then a 2x3 CC cage. The 3 girls's cage is 2x6 so it would give the 2 piggies 2x3 of space. I suppose I can look and see what it looks like.

I have extra grids so I know I can split it but I would probably have to give Norbie 2x2 and that seems soooo small for her. But, its only for a week or so.

I will see what I can do. I would love to put her with her buddies!

Documentatio of Weight:
934 the morning OF Surgery..10-24-2011
874g 9:00Am, 10-25-2011
862g 6:30am , 10-26-2011
856g 6:00pm, 10-26-2011
852g 8:30AM, 10-27-2011

(I think I will jump for joy if I weigh her and she just doesn't lose any more!)

Tracis
Let Sleeping Pigs Lie

Post   » Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:34 pm


We will all jump for joy with you. :)

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camende
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Post   » Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:02 pm


Well start jumping because she is at 858. I was shocked because I fed her "breakfast" and I was at work until 9pm.

So, she is up at little from this morning!! Yeah!

Documentatio of Weight:
934 the morning OF Surgery..10-24-2011
874g 9:00Am, 10-25-2011
862g 6:30am , 10-26-2011
856g 6:00pm, 10-26-2011
852g 8:30AM, 10-27-2011
858g, 9:58pm, 12-27-2011

and her water bottle is down quit a bit from this morning!

Tomorrow I am going to clean the entire GP room (we have company coming this weekend) and then see what I can do about getting Norbie back with the girls!

The husband's oldest daughter and her two kids (hellions) are coming and I am going to close the GP room door and we are putting a "sleigh bell" on the door so if someone opens it, we will hear it! (thanks to my grandmom for the long strip of bells on leather that make a LOUD noise).

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