BabyGirl Page 4
The Vet is perplexed
SO… The diagnosis he
says is inflammation ,of what, he doesn’t know.. he palpated her stomach
pretty hard.. and she didn’t show signs of pain.. he didn’t feel anything
wrong.. no impacted rumen.. nothing felt distended or swollen.. nothing odd
at all.. no large amount of gas.. the only thing I personally found really
strange and I mean STRANGE.. was this..
I have monitored this girl beyond reality here.. when she tinkles.. I
catch it in a cup.. and gauge how much, how often, what color and what it
smells like.. and just before she tinkles she hollers out.. now being that
she is laying down again.. I know she doesn’t want to get herself wet..
maybe that’s why she hollers.. but it really looks like it hurts.. she
really hollers.. you know mouth open and tongue hanging out
hollering.. the whole bit.. That wasn’t the strange part.. *s*.. (strange
for you maybe but not for me..) this is strange …
Well.. he needed to get a fecal sample .. so on went the glove and
lubricated his finger and in he went.. she was obviously uncomfortable and
embarrassed.. but she dealt with it.. he got his sample..took some for the
fecal float.. it was maybe about 2 minutes and she tinkled..and I mean
ALOT.. (she has been putting out maybe a couple TBSPs of very dark urine
lately at a time.. ) this was probably about 3/4 cup and clear as water.. I
have not seen her tinkle like that in over a month.. she had no water to
drink this morning.. so you figure it out.. I wonder if he could have pushed
on something that was stuck or turned or wrong somehow to make her go like
this.. it was as normal as normal could be.. made me look like a fool..
*LOL* kids!
On the way home she laid in the passenger seat in
the van.. and half way home she starts to holler.. and kick her feet
around.. I knew she had to go.. so she did..not AS clear but a large amount
again.. she did this twice coming home.. He started her on Baytril.. man
alive 26.00 for 20 pills.. so he’s stumped and so am I.. mostly I wonder
about that urine.. weird!..
March 26th 2000
BabyGirl is trying to stand up again on her own..
she just doesn’t give up easily, this girl.. a few steps one at a time,
still wobbly but trying..even though she falls alot again in the
goatyard..now she falls and hollers out to me to come and fix it for her- as
pitiful as it is.. it is also pretty cute..
(of course just about everything she does is
cute to me.. *L*)
Now..I that have sheared her fiber… and what did I notice?.. Her spine is
curved …a lot.. from the shoulders to the tail.. (wish I had seen that before
I talked to Dr Craddock).
Do goats get
scoliosis?..
I could find nothing in Goat Medicine about it.. She also now asks
to go outside to tinkle.. goes to the kitchen door and talks to me.. out on
the porch to tinkle and back inside.. and later when she gets tired.. goes
into the bedroom and stands by the bed.. waiting.. so I pick her up and put
her in bed.. she is really something.. Summer came and went and BabyGirl did
fine all summer.. out in the pasture with the others walking carefully and
sometimes falling, but picks herself up and brushes herself off and back at
it again..
