Mrsliveinabin
I did have it all online, but had to take it down as my live journal account decided it didn't want to be as private as I thought it was.

Brought in to us 12 days ago weighing 100g, very cold with one eye closed and a big abscess on his head. We anaesthetised him to see how bad it was and clean up as much as possible. Stayed in that night, bouncy and full of beans the next day, even eating by himself. Taken home for next few days, kept in outdoor cage, develops flystrike due to open wound on his head. Brought back in, gassed down again to clean and flush out all the crap. Goes home for weekend with another nurse, is kept indoors and responds well to treatment, but there's a lot of pus building up. Today brought back in and again lots of pus. Has been on hedgehog approved antibiotics and they're obviously not working as lots of pus and has respiratory problem, so given stronger dose of antibiotics and again wound is cleaned thoroughly. Phoned St tiggywinkles (bestest hedgehog place in the world) and they recommend going in surgically tomorrow to get ALL the crap out and change antibiotics to much stronger one, even gave us the doses which is handy. So tomorrow is crunch time for him as we could open him to to find he's got a head fracture which would be the cause of the resp problems or it could just be that we weren't getting all the pus out when we were flushing it. So keeping everything crossed for him now.

Hope you weren't eating when you read that.

I have it all written out in 'client friendly' words with pretty pictures if anyone wants to read and ooh and ahh over him' Has to be sent via email though as not putting it in the public domain again.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 4 Aug 2008, 22:10, Reply)