Even with his little dolphin nose and bogey's we love him to bits!
Penned upstairs whilst we clean downstairs and Loki is wondering what snacks we have for him while he waits 💗
Ok so we have mixed news but positive overall.
Eisa - amazing news - her heart appears to be completely normal. No abnormality. Waiting a week for the official cardio specialist review but initial thoughts are 99% certain its normal.
We are going to do a quarter dose of frusol for a week, check her breathing remains normal, if yes then she can stop the frusol entirely and again check breathing normal.
It could be that the frusol dose she is on is the dose she needs to be normal or could be that she doesnt need it at all and the change was due to IV fluids or something odd thats no longer an issue so we will monitor and see but is good news for Eisa💚
For those that don't know - Eisa went to the emergency vets and then specialists on new years eve with stasis and then plueral effussion and was diagnosed with an enlarged heart on one side. But happy to say it now appears normal!
For Loki- he had a scary rhinostomy op last wednesday and spent until this Monday (almost a week) at the vets for recovery. He had a recheck today with the specialists and the bacteria (pasturella) appears to be antibiotic resistant potentially :(. However, she said weve done a great job of keeping his stoma clean and open and his breathing is good and he seems good and happy overall otherwise. She is going to check with the surgical specialist to see if we can flush with an antibiotic or antibacterial solution rather than saline potentially to see if this helps and will get back to us next week on this and then follow ups can be back with our normal vets.
If anyone has had any experience with successfully treating or managing antibiotic resistant pasturella please could you let me know any advice?
Currently we are flushing with saline and cleaning 2x a day and keeping his stoma open. He has numbing topical spray before any cleaning as well as gabopentin and loxicom for pain relief. And on 2 antibiotics too at the moment. Hes really happy in himself otherwise thankfully our little bright sparky boy 💚
We also give fibreplex and biolapis to protect his gut
It's Loki's Rhinostomy surgery tomorrow and we are very nervous. He's been sneezing over a year now. We are hoping this helps give him some relief and better treat the bacteria