A Swede in France
Songster
Hi everyone,
Me again, it feels like, with endless health issues
This time it is Penelope, a 1.5 year old Araucana.
It's a long story, but due to a nasty infection that hit her really hard and fast, one of her eggs got too fragile and her internal organs too swollen - so it broke inside her, quite far in. Bad news! The infection was not from the broken egg though, just to be clear.
Anyway. She has been to the vet - who did a complete x-ray to see what was happening, that's why we know everything was increadibly swollen and the shell was there - and after some intensive care in the form of an iv and some antibiotics to see if she would survive the night, she tried to remove the pieces by putting Penny to sleep, dilating her cloaca, and going into the uterus. She found that the pieces had fused with the mucous membrane, and could not be removed. The only option seems to be surgery where they open up her back, cut open the uterus, cut the pieces out, and sew her back up again - or a complete removal of the uterus and oviduct, which is a risky major surgery that involves breaking her ribcage. This all sounds 100% awful.
For now, we brought her home (she spend two days in hospital poor girl) and are continuing treatment against the infection and inflammation - but we know that with the egg shell stuck in her tissues, her prognosis is likely very bad.
So I wonder... has this happened to anyone of you, that the shell fused with the mucous membrane and could only be removed by open surgery (rather than going in through the vent without cutting her open)? What did you do? What would you do? What do you think her prognosis is, if we just pray and hope that it will resolve, and don't opt for the surgery?
Sad
Me again, it feels like, with endless health issues
This time it is Penelope, a 1.5 year old Araucana.
It's a long story, but due to a nasty infection that hit her really hard and fast, one of her eggs got too fragile and her internal organs too swollen - so it broke inside her, quite far in. Bad news! The infection was not from the broken egg though, just to be clear.
Anyway. She has been to the vet - who did a complete x-ray to see what was happening, that's why we know everything was increadibly swollen and the shell was there - and after some intensive care in the form of an iv and some antibiotics to see if she would survive the night, she tried to remove the pieces by putting Penny to sleep, dilating her cloaca, and going into the uterus. She found that the pieces had fused with the mucous membrane, and could not be removed. The only option seems to be surgery where they open up her back, cut open the uterus, cut the pieces out, and sew her back up again - or a complete removal of the uterus and oviduct, which is a risky major surgery that involves breaking her ribcage. This all sounds 100% awful.
For now, we brought her home (she spend two days in hospital poor girl) and are continuing treatment against the infection and inflammation - but we know that with the egg shell stuck in her tissues, her prognosis is likely very bad.
So I wonder... has this happened to anyone of you, that the shell fused with the mucous membrane and could only be removed by open surgery (rather than going in through the vent without cutting her open)? What did you do? What would you do? What do you think her prognosis is, if we just pray and hope that it will resolve, and don't opt for the surgery?
Sad
