Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

GeorgeUK

Hope your Dad's okay.

Good luck with the piggies too - at least you no longer need to worry about Ms Dippy. She should now know where she stands.

Numpty_Monkey

Hope your dads ok hun :grouphug:

Nargleblast

Good morning Wol, hope today goes better for you.

Karmacat

Oh Wol..... you have so much on your plate. Forget the client.... I really hope your dad is okay, and that you're bearing up under the weight of all the other family stuff.
xxx

Tixy

Wol :grouphug:

Hope your dad is okay and that you and your mum are as well. Hopefully the clinic will help and hope he will see that he needs to take things easier (sounds like you & he might have similar characteristics of doing too much for others and not taking time to rest.)
Things like this put idiot clients into perspective. No point making yourself ill by rushing around trying to please a client who doesn't deserve your time.

Thinking of you. x

Lemon_Tree

sorry to hear about your dad, unfortunately my own dad has been having TIA's for a while so i know the fear you're living with. sending you hugs and prayers.

ps if you don't mind me asking what do you do? i've always wondered but seem to have missed that bit along the line.

Wol2

Good news (?) dad is out in the garden stubbornly seeing to his vegetable patch :mad: and has appointment with the clinic on friday (normally it takes a month to get one)

Over a year ago he actually thought he was showing early signs and therefore insisted the GP send him to the TIA clinic......where he was given a clean bill of health..... hence why yesterday has been such a terrible shock.

Bad news: New vet looked at all the X rays and thinks it's not heart problems but probably microbiological infection (he immediately zeroed in on a specific disease transmitted by rats :mad::mad: ...Wol loads air rifle).

He would prefer a body to do a PM _pale__pale_ but as both Pebble and the rat are now pushing up the daisies, he will have to take samples from sick piggies.
He can do blood serology and biochemistry now, but unfortunately, bacterial cultures can;t be done unless antibiotics are stopped first for a period of time (which means pig could die from the infection first) Also, the collection of samples (blood from the main heart vein and lung washings) has to be carried out under general anaesthetic which is also especially risky in a pig with respiratory problems. _pale__pale_

He wanted me to leave two sick pigs who had already been X rayed and suggested.......Beech and Grommie :eek::eek: .......

I refused point blank to let Grommie be put through all that in view of his age/frailty but reluctantly agreed to leave Beech .... My only other choices were Whisp and Muffin.....so suggested Muffin as although she has improved on the heart meds, she still showed the same symptoms originally and she had been off antibiotics for the last two weeks. However if her results are negative then I presume in two weeks time Beech, (by then antibiotic free and hopefully still alive), will have to be put under again for a further sample. _pale__pale_

I pick them up on friday.

I know it;s for the best - needs of the many vs needs of the few etc....but I feel absolutely distraught at having to make this choice.......

Numpty_Monkey

hun:grouphug:for you :grouphug::kisses3:for Beech and Mufin,
The Vet is an expert and will do the best to help everypiggie

Give them a hug from me:grouphug:

Karmacat

:kisses3:Wol, I can't *imagine* what its like to ever have to make that sort of decision, let alone unprepared and immediately.....

_pale_:grouphug:

Horace

Wol..the piggies are in safe hands at the vets - the vet seems to know what he is talking about. As for rats..you need to get some traps and get a man with a jack russell to come round - jack russells are great rat killers (mind you they arel also good at nipping ankles:mad:).

Dad's are always awkward - mine insists on mowing the lawns even though it nearly kills him, he won't let me manhandle the mower either because its petrol driven and therefore not a girly thing to be messed with:rolleyes: