- taken yesterday.
Hi all, well a very very wet Friday saw us off to the vet school. First and foremost, it was an extremely positive session and I left there feeling much more upbeat about the future and with a positive plan of action instead of what was really becoming 'a headless chicken' act.
I was lucky that the vet Ian Ramsey has some experience and knowledge of munsters having liaised with Helen Evans on work related issues on several occassions. The first thing he said was that he did not consider him grossly underweight for his age; where body condition is scored from 1 (malnourished) to 9 (obese) he would score him 3-4. He took a very detailed history. I said that I wondered if there was a connection between the emergency treatment for his snake bite where he was bombarded with intravenous antibiotics and steroids and a subsequent much improved condition over the next 6-8 weeks before a relapse again. He didn't discount that as a factor for the improvement. I left Ghillie at the vet school for an abdominal ultra sound scan and an assortment of blood tests etc. The blood results that were available immediately were within normal limits, there are others not yet available. Nothing untoward showed on the ultrasound-mega sighs of relief!!!! He is now on a 4 week course of oxytet and metronidazole to clean up his gut in preparation for an endoscopy in a months time. Ian said it is possible but unlikely that the diarrhoea will resolve before then. Ghillie is now on the Royal Canin clinical veterinary sensitive diet which I have been told to feed to his max level over 3 -4 meals a day, no treats, no other supplements nothing but this diet until the next visit.
So, 2 days on, there are actually solid motions in between the squits, and the frequency has decreased. He has taken to the new diet, and I am happier because I know that he is getting sufficient food and actually absorbing it. He looks more like a hound than a munster, (as you can see from his picture with Jess) as they shaved him all around the lower abdomen to do the scan, and also a large area on his neck to take the bloods. Poor wee soul is not at his most handsome now.
I am just so glad that there is finally some positive progress and that as things stand at the moment, a high probability of a satisfactory outcome for the wee fella. Your support everybody has been such a help, phone calls, emails, the blog, it has meant so much to us. I know that you'll all have your fingers crossed that things continue to improve.
Huggzzzz to everybody,
Lindsey & Ghillie.
