rat update

[ratcreature]

Because the wound area has been really swollen over the weekend I brought Ignatz in to the vet again this afternoon. I didn't think it was an emergency because he was eating and behaving mostly okay. Turns out it wasn't swelling but the wound had bled internally. So the vet drew a disturbingly huge amount of blood from the wound in a syringe. (It was at least a full human size syringe, and that from a rat!) The vet said however that the bleeding itself must have stopped already, otherwise Ignatz wouldn't still be alive. I hope he's right about the bleeding, and that Ignatz will now heal okay. In any case I suspect Ignatz is now more comfortable without all that blood in the wound pressing on things, though once we got home he just hid in his house. But then I suppose I would feel really crappy with such blood loss too. If you have any good health vibes to spare, Ignatz could certainly use them.

Comments

[cereta]

Sending!

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I worry so much about him, that it may not be okay after all but get worse again with whatever went wrong inside the wound.

And he hasn't been very lively tonight, but then that could be just because he needs to heal and recover and is weak from the bleeding. He's still eating and drinking though, so that's something, and he seems to try his best to hang in there. I just wish I could do something more for him. :( I mean, I already feel guilty that I didn't bring him in for the emergency hours with the swelling when it turned out to be actually bleeding inside the wound, though I'm not sure whether they would (or could) have even done anything more than drain some of the blood earlier.