bird-brain
02-06-2011, 01:23 AM
I am not even gonna finish that sentence for fear that I will further jinx myself.
Cabo's lab results were ready the Wed after our vet trip but for some reason, the vet wanted to wait on Tango's necropsy preliminary to begin treatment. His WBC's were 15000. That alone should be enough to treat but as the vet would not prescribe, i could not do much about it.
Tango's necrospy showed no evidence of disease. No trauma to the body or internal organs, the only unusual findings were multifocal hemorrhages in the brain, however, they were isolated to the ventricles and did not involve the areas they should have in the event of trauma so in my opinion this was simply the blood pooling in post mortem response (which is common). In short, there were no significant findings other than the severe anemia on his labs. The most common cause of which would be heavy metals but I cant think of what it might be from in this house.
Cabo is now on antibiotics and I am concerned about an odd feather loss pattern with him ( not plucking) and want to test for PBFD but the vet wants to wait through his next molt....um hello, I have 6 other birds????????????????????
Then, this morning, I noticed Zulu would not put weight on his right foot and sure enough, it looks like Kenya gashed it open for him. By the time I saw it, it had stopped bleeding and I am treating it with topicals but the little guy is obviously in pain and not acting himself at all.
I of course, have decided that Tango had some weird congenital clotting problem or something and that Zulu since he is a clutch mate is going to exanguinate via his cut foot during the night tonight.
I am seeing monsters everywhere I look right now. My daughter's gcc has been very clingy with her for the last 2 days so I am afraid he is ill from playing with Cabo and so on and so forth.
This has been a horrible couple of weeks. I have a dead fid with no identifiable cause so I don't know if my other fids are at risk, one ill bird, one injured bird. I was in VA last week to help out my brother ( my sister in law may not make it home from this recent hospital admission) and contracted pneumonia and because of Mary's frail health, had to stay in a hotel for 3 days until I was well enough to drive home and today was my first afebrile day since last Sunday. I don't feel that this avian vet has the same sense of urgency about treating and diagnosing and piecing together test results as I have and I am afraid I am going to adopt Kenya's plucking habit and just pull all of my hair out.....................
But seriously, if anyone has any ideas about severe anemia in lovies other than trauma or heavy metals (Cabo shared cage and toys etc and his hemoglobin is fine). Please share it with me. I am sorry, I think I am just frustrated and venting but I don't know how to not be frustrated at this point. :very_sad:
Cabo's lab results were ready the Wed after our vet trip but for some reason, the vet wanted to wait on Tango's necropsy preliminary to begin treatment. His WBC's were 15000. That alone should be enough to treat but as the vet would not prescribe, i could not do much about it.
Tango's necrospy showed no evidence of disease. No trauma to the body or internal organs, the only unusual findings were multifocal hemorrhages in the brain, however, they were isolated to the ventricles and did not involve the areas they should have in the event of trauma so in my opinion this was simply the blood pooling in post mortem response (which is common). In short, there were no significant findings other than the severe anemia on his labs. The most common cause of which would be heavy metals but I cant think of what it might be from in this house.
Cabo is now on antibiotics and I am concerned about an odd feather loss pattern with him ( not plucking) and want to test for PBFD but the vet wants to wait through his next molt....um hello, I have 6 other birds????????????????????
Then, this morning, I noticed Zulu would not put weight on his right foot and sure enough, it looks like Kenya gashed it open for him. By the time I saw it, it had stopped bleeding and I am treating it with topicals but the little guy is obviously in pain and not acting himself at all.
I of course, have decided that Tango had some weird congenital clotting problem or something and that Zulu since he is a clutch mate is going to exanguinate via his cut foot during the night tonight.
I am seeing monsters everywhere I look right now. My daughter's gcc has been very clingy with her for the last 2 days so I am afraid he is ill from playing with Cabo and so on and so forth.
This has been a horrible couple of weeks. I have a dead fid with no identifiable cause so I don't know if my other fids are at risk, one ill bird, one injured bird. I was in VA last week to help out my brother ( my sister in law may not make it home from this recent hospital admission) and contracted pneumonia and because of Mary's frail health, had to stay in a hotel for 3 days until I was well enough to drive home and today was my first afebrile day since last Sunday. I don't feel that this avian vet has the same sense of urgency about treating and diagnosing and piecing together test results as I have and I am afraid I am going to adopt Kenya's plucking habit and just pull all of my hair out.....................
But seriously, if anyone has any ideas about severe anemia in lovies other than trauma or heavy metals (Cabo shared cage and toys etc and his hemoglobin is fine). Please share it with me. I am sorry, I think I am just frustrated and venting but I don't know how to not be frustrated at this point. :very_sad: