just did surgery on impacted crop! 3/4 RIP coach

[jerseygirl1]

OMG

You are awesome!!!!!!!!!! I am saving this post in case Iever need to do this

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Wow - that is incredible!

 

[Overeasyplz]

Excellent work. I will save this too incase the need ever arises!

 

[bonniebe]

5 hours, 6 more chicken sips of water, no drainage, i am really tempted to pick her up and see what is going on under her feathers. i keep telling my self how fragile that mend is right now. very iffy i'm sure. any disturbance could change something. i am, liiterally, sitting on my hands at times. thank for everyone's support, you guys are our new bff's. bonnie and coach

 

[chickfan]

Wow! I'm impressed, and will follow this thread. It sure sounds positive so far. I'm also a nurse, but I doubt I'd have the nerve to do this. I thought I did good when I corrected a prolapse! LOL Good on you, and I'm pulling for Coach.

 

[bonniebe]

it is really hard to do something people perceive as unpleasant (surgery, prolapse replacement) especially in animals and babies, they don't understand, you can't talk with them to comfort them, on the flip side tho, they live from moment to moment i think, they don't look ahead and worry, i think they are invested in the here and now, and maybe that makes things a little easier on them. coach just passed the 6 hour mark. more water, and still no drainage. i knew if coach had died before i did surgery i would have opened her up to see what the problem was. i also knew if it was an impaction and it hadn't cleared by itself in almost 2 weeks, and with my interventions in the pas 4-5 days, it realistically wasn't going to go away, without surgery. every day she was weaker and her chances of survival plummeted, so i really figured we had nothing to lose. i was going to have a chicken with an incision, either before she was dead or after, so what the heck.

 

[AHappychick]

wow great job!

 

[momreda]

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Look, you saved her life! How many people are able to do what you did? I think you did the right thing by her. If I were in your shoes and able to do what you did, I would do it in second! Be proud of yourself, you gave her the gift of life and if you had taken her to the vet, you would have the same end result except with a rather large vet bill to go with it!

 

[bonniebe]

had some people over for dinner, just checked coach, so far its been 11 hours, coach is sleeping with her head tucked under her wing, has had water free choice since 7 pm (8 hours after surg). no new drainage on pad in dog crate. if she survives the night i'm giving her an 80% chance of survival (based on all my massive amounts of prev chicken surgeries (this being my first one!))

 

[momreda]

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That's wonderful, thanks for the update!