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RatCreature ([personal profile] ratcreature) wrote2009-06-22 06:15 pm
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rat update

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.

[identity profile] patk.livejournal.com 2009-06-23 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
>>The vet said however that the bleeding itself must have stopped already, otherwise Ignatz wouldn't still be alive. <<

Oh mein Gott, erst hinterher zu erfahren, wie ernst die Situation gewesen ist. Du musst dir vorgekommen sein, wie der Reiter über den Bodensee. Ich drück weiterhin die Daumen für Ignatz.

[identity profile] patk.livejournal.com 2009-06-23 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Sch ... ade. Da bleibt nur intensive Beobachtung übrig. Und wieder zum Tierarzt, wenn's dubios aussieht.