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Ooooh, thank you MrsGreenJeans. I'll look online and see if I can find that one too.
After a string of wonderful days, Cosmos is back at the vets for a prolapse that didn't want to go back in. I spent four hours trying cold water, cold water mixed with sugar, cold compress with sugar and gentle pressure, and slathering on Preparation H. It started out small and Cosmos didn't notice or mind it. After I poured cold water on it though, his attention went to his bottom. He kept trying to groom through his cone and that made it worse. His plastic cone now has blood all over the bottom part from him rubbing it against the prolapse over and over. My afternoon/evening was spent trying to keep him from doing that while also trying to get it to go back inside. I took him to the vet about an hour after trying the Preparation H.
He saw a doctor that we haven't seen before tonight. She had me buy another bottle of Prep H (since I hadn't brought it with me) and she put some on his bottom as well. She's going to wait a few hours and see if it helps the prolapse to go down. If so, she'll push it back in and send him home. If not, then he'll have to have the purse strings put on again. When I got there I asked if he still needed to have the Restoralax twice a day. Yesterday he had a nicely formed poop that was squishable and no prolapse at all. Then his poop from today was very soft. He also pooped multiple times w/ the prolapse out and thus contributing to the difficulty of getting it to go back in. All of todays poops were very soft, with the last bits being squirts. That makes me wonder if having firmer poop would be better. I asked about that when I got there, but didn't get an answer. I ask again when they call me to let me know what they're going to do w/r/t purse strings or no purse strings.
Cosmos also took the last of the Tylosin this morning. I'll give it a full day to go through his system and then will bring in a stool sample for another PCR test on Tuesday.
After a string of wonderful days, Cosmos is back at the vets for a prolapse that didn't want to go back in. I spent four hours trying cold water, cold water mixed with sugar, cold compress with sugar and gentle pressure, and slathering on Preparation H. It started out small and Cosmos didn't notice or mind it. After I poured cold water on it though, his attention went to his bottom. He kept trying to groom through his cone and that made it worse. His plastic cone now has blood all over the bottom part from him rubbing it against the prolapse over and over. My afternoon/evening was spent trying to keep him from doing that while also trying to get it to go back inside. I took him to the vet about an hour after trying the Preparation H.
He saw a doctor that we haven't seen before tonight. She had me buy another bottle of Prep H (since I hadn't brought it with me) and she put some on his bottom as well. She's going to wait a few hours and see if it helps the prolapse to go down. If so, she'll push it back in and send him home. If not, then he'll have to have the purse strings put on again. When I got there I asked if he still needed to have the Restoralax twice a day. Yesterday he had a nicely formed poop that was squishable and no prolapse at all. Then his poop from today was very soft. He also pooped multiple times w/ the prolapse out and thus contributing to the difficulty of getting it to go back in. All of todays poops were very soft, with the last bits being squirts. That makes me wonder if having firmer poop would be better. I asked about that when I got there, but didn't get an answer. I ask again when they call me to let me know what they're going to do w/r/t purse strings or no purse strings.
Cosmos also took the last of the Tylosin this morning. I'll give it a full day to go through his system and then will bring in a stool sample for another PCR test on Tuesday.