Greitje being cared for
An hour later the vet came on our request and he said that she looked quite relaxed, she wasn’t in a lot of pain any more and she had no symptoms of colic, so he gave her a few injections (painkiller and indigestion relaxer) and said that she should be fine. The whole Saturday she still didn’t want to eat and there was also no change in her look (a very blown up belly) and behavior. During the night we took turns to see that she wasn’t getting worse. Thankfully that wasn’t the case, but she didn’t get any better either.
Sunday morning we called the vet again, because there was still no improvement at all and she hadn’t eaten anything in almost 2 days. He came and this time he felt that there was a turn in her intestines. Again he gave her a few injections to relax the intestines, hoping it would unlock by itself. We waited a few hours and still no improvements, so Marleen decided to call another vet to ask for a second opinion.
This vet came in the evening and did a very thorough research. He took us and his job very seriously. He saw right away that Grietje was very ill and probably had colic. He did an internal check up and thankfully there was no turn in her intestines, but there was a blockage that made it very hard for her to defecate.
Then the nightmare started for our poor little girl. First a tube in her nose, because that’s the normal procedure with colic. Unfortunately the tube was too large for her nostrils, so that wasn’t going to work. After that a tube was inserted in her behind with a sort of liquid that was pored into her. And as if that weren’t enough, she also got an infusion with 4 liters of water and detox in her vein. All and all, the visit from this vet took 2.5 hours!!!!
But her nightmare continued. Before he left, he gave us instructions for the night and next day. We had to give her some honey-water and powder (medicine) in her mouth, and some water and oil trough a tube in her behind, and this every 3 hours. This was only during the night. The next day we had to give her a kind of paste 5 x within 12 hours and we had to flush her behind again. You can imagine that our poor little girl was absolutely not happy to see us these few days, but thankfully in the end it was all worth it, because the next day her figure was normal again and she wanted to eat a little bit. After a few days she became more and more herself again and 1 week later you wouldn’t know she was ever ill!
