Today’s Drama…

So today’s drama… Lloyd choked on his food this morning (we think).. Russell had fed him downstairs and came back upstairs when he heard this awful noise so ran down followed closely by me to find Lloyd trying to bring something up but much much louder than normal. Naturally, we panicked! Lloyd seemed to have it a bit more under control than us. When he stopped coughing he lay down with his ears right back sort of low screaming. Again, we panicked, I say we.. I panicked. Russell was much better at dealing with it than me. This was at about 7.30am so his vet wasn’t yet open. So I called another local vet who are open 24/7 and they said if he’s fine now to monitor him and call back if he does it again. Russell sat with him while I quickly got dressed ready to take him in an emergency. We both then sat with him for a bit and Russ had to go off to work. 

As soon as my regular vet opened I called them and they said to keep an eye on him and to bring him straight in if he does it again. So not going in to work today, very lucky to have a very understanding boss and a quiet period at work.

I don’t know if whatever it was was anything to do with his amputation or if it was just the fact that he is silly and was trying to eat his food too fast. But I saw his life flash before my eyes and it scared the **** out of me!

A little before the incident Lloyd was sleeping in our bed and had somehow managed to get his arm through the blue collar/cone and get himself stuck. I only noticed this because he kept trying to get up and falling over ☹️ managed to free him fairly easily before it wound him up too much but I do wonder if this happened before and that’s why he fell off the bed and flipped out. I have put a little safety pin on it to make it a little bit tighter (can still easily get 2 fingers between it and his neck so not too tight) so hopefully he won’t get stuck again.

So all that before 8am!…. basically, although he seems a lot better, it has only been a week and we still need to keep a very close eye on him at all times! Russell thinks we should take the blue thing off but I don’t want him to pull out his stitches or to get the wound infected so don’t know what to do. 

Later on…

When Russell got home from work he noticed that Lloyd wouldn’t let him touch his side, just kept crying out and going to bite him so it was back on the phone to the vet and a quick trip to see them. They had a good feel around his tummy etc and concluded that the most likely scenario was that he was a bit tender where his wound is and as they had to remove muscle that was attached to the leg, the same muscle is attached to the muscle he uses to cough so where he coughed so hard and so much it strained the muscle and that’s why he cried out in pain and why he won’t let us touch that area now. She gave us some heavy pain killers to give him if it happens again and some cream for his skin as it looked a bit sore around where the fentanyl patch was.

Bit of a set back, but he still seems much better than he was the other day. So hopefully this is just a minor hiccup.