My 2 Cents.....better late...
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Posted by Ally's Mom on September 08, 2000 at 21:44:29:
In Reply to: What should I do posted by John Styner on September 05, 2000 at 09:19:56:
Watch the post-op care!!!
Operations are scarey enough...but I had a BD get a total hysterectomy...(uh, well that's what I call it anyways as she had all her repr organs out) and she came through it like a real trooper. It was done on an emergency basis at 1:00 in the morning. By 8:00 she was fine, and they asked me to bring her food so they could force feed her. (So I didn't know much :o( ). I saw her for myself and she looked great - was even running around for the first time in days. But the vet wanted to keep her for the day until she got some food in her. We went to pick her up at 6 pm and they told us she was dead. No heartbeat for over an hour. My daughter wanted to bring her home anyways, so we did. As we left the vet said, very reluctantly, not to freak out if we hear scrabbling noises in the box she was in. When consulting colleaugues about the situation, one of them had told him he had heard of lizards seemingly dead get revived. Well tell THAT to a lizard mom!! We looked in the box - that sucker was stone dead!! We raced home and I picked her out of the box and the poor thing was stone cold!!! She couldn't have gotten that cold in the ten-minute drive. The room had been cold, and the heating pad was NOT warm enough...obviously to me she died from the additional stress of temperature problems on top of trauma of the operation. I really believe this because ... we placed her on her OOOPS AGAIN hot rock - and massaged her limbs. Darned thing came back to life - no kidding. Called the vet - they were all tearful and cheering.
Uh, then we placed the heat lamp directly on top of her. Some heat good, more heat better, right? Wrong. I chalk the stupidity up to the hysteria of the moment. Our little lady didn't survive. Now we know what an open mouth means....and now we are the biggest pain-in-the-*ss clients any vet has seen. So watch the post-op care....take her home if you can...and follow YOUR insticts, NOT even the most 'professional' vet. Good luck to you!!
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