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OK Angel seems to be doing well this morning, hard to say as she's broody so just standing in the corner of her wire-bottomed crate, a bit puffed up and still.
The wound is clean, stitches holding, no redness and no signs of infection, her eyes are clear and I don't think she has a fever.
She's not drinking anything though and has no food until later tonight.
But... bad news... I didn't get the problem out of the crop and will have to operate again
The swelling has gone down by half but her crop is still enlarged, rock hard and filled with pebbles. And now, I can feel a mass of tangled grasses at the bottom of the crop which is probably the cause of the obstruction. The incision I had made was too high up and I could not reach that part, I had no idea what I was doing either. However we did get a LOT of stuff out of the crop, which had to be done anyways - my poor sweet girl, she's such a trooper in all of this!
I will let her recuperate from this surgery, once she's back to her normal life (minus hard grains, grit and free-ranging, that's over now) and her would has healed completely, we will operate again to get the rest of the mass out but the incision will be lower to get proper access to the problem.
Sigh :-(
The wound is clean, stitches holding, no redness and no signs of infection, her eyes are clear and I don't think she has a fever.
She's not drinking anything though and has no food until later tonight.
But... bad news... I didn't get the problem out of the crop and will have to operate again
The swelling has gone down by half but her crop is still enlarged, rock hard and filled with pebbles. And now, I can feel a mass of tangled grasses at the bottom of the crop which is probably the cause of the obstruction. The incision I had made was too high up and I could not reach that part, I had no idea what I was doing either. However we did get a LOT of stuff out of the crop, which had to be done anyways - my poor sweet girl, she's such a trooper in all of this!
I will let her recuperate from this surgery, once she's back to her normal life (minus hard grains, grit and free-ranging, that's over now) and her would has healed completely, we will operate again to get the rest of the mass out but the incision will be lower to get proper access to the problem.
Sigh :-(