#veterinary surgery

[miiuren]

Donate to Urgent Surgery Needed for Kabocha's Health, organized by Melissa Natrop

Hello my name is Melissa though many know me as Renée. This handsome orange … Melissa Natrop needs your support for Urgent Surgery Needed fo

My kitty needs urgent surgery for his obstipation. Please help us out!

[wisecollectorofbooks]

Help me get my cat the surgery she needs?

Donate to Help Callie get lifesaving surgery!, organized by Allison Tyler

Hi, my name is Allison, and I am raising money to pay for surgery for my cat, Calli… Allison Tyler needs your support for Help Callie get l

Hi everyone, I know times and money are tough right now, but if anyone can spare a few dollars/pounds/whatever currency, please help me save my cat? She's survived longer than anyone expected after being diagnosed with an incredibly rare condition, a chylothorax, where fluid is leaking into her chest from her lymphatic system. The vet has already removed 100ml of fluid from her in a one-off drainage, but she would need repeated drains for the rest of her life to prevent respiratory failure.

There is a surgery that can fix this, but my vet care plan does not provide any financial support for the between £8000 and £9000 cost, and with the diagnosis I have no options for finding a new plan that would cover it as it is now "pre-existing".

If you are able to help, even a bit, or just share this with anyone you know who might be able to, I would be incredibly grateful. My cats got me through a lot of things in the last 7 years I've had them, and they were the most important part of my move to the UK 3 years ago.

[monkeymeghan]

Chloe is currently sleeping in her hammock while I watch stargate on Pluto tv. I’m so scared for her surgery tomorrow. I know it will help her, but it’s killing me knowing that she’ll be scared and confused and in pain. I just want her to be ok.

[ask-a-vetblr]

Do all surgeries require a face mask.

I previously worked at a clinic where during spays and neuters they didn't wear them at any point on the process. Is that standard? The vets I shadowed before always wore them so I found it odd

Sueanoi here.

The standard practice of surgeries require wearing a mask to prevent your saliva/snot to fall in the wound when you breathe/talk.

Do any less, it's sub-standard.

Is sub-standard acceptable? I don't know. What do you think?

Long answer and personal thoughts under the cut.

... Thing is, the price of spays and neuters are pressured to stay so low, comparing to other surgeries that explores the abdomen in a very similar way, with similar required materials. I understand why some low-cost businesses would do anything to push the cost down, so the price of service would stay affordable. I had been in such a business before, and it's frustrating at how many "accidents" happen and wow what else do you think would happen when you cut so many corners the square is becoming round.

I quit that place after a year. Its policy felt insulting to my degree and personal standard. The people around the area were under poverty line, and they praised this place as the only affordable hospital that they could bring their animals to, but I would never recommend this place to anyone. And why would I keep working in a place that I would never recommend to anyone? Is it better that such a place exist than not? Is it better that these animals of poor people get a mediocre level of care than nothing at all? Most of the animals that came to said place to spay/neuter were unwanted. If they die? Well population control was still a success. That's why it was done in that way. Is it acceptable? I don't know. What do you think? Should you pay a little more to make sure this animal survives? Do you feel it is important that this animal survives? Or perhaps it's ok if this becomes a euthanasia with an extra step?

In this day and age? A mask is just a thing that we wear to go outside safely anyway (Do not at me, go mask free at your own risk, it's legal to do that most of the places now.). For crying out loud, get a reusable cloth mask. It serves the purpose of saliva catching just fine. It doesn't cost you that much to wash a piece of fabric along side other cloths that a hospital will need to use anyway. you know? like the drape? Or are you gonna say that they didn't even use a drape? Does your place doesn't even have a washer machine? then idk man, should you really be running a hospital if you can't even wash a piece of cloth?

[bleeezie]

Fidget's Surgery Fund, organized by Kami Green

Hi everyone. I want to take a minute to tell you about my best friend.  Her name is Fidget, and sh… Kami Green needs your support for Fid

Hi everyone. I want to take a minute to tell you about my best friend.

Her name is Fidget, and she's a 5.5 year old lab mix that I have had since she was about 2-3 months old, and she's been with me through some of the most difficult times of my adult life. She is the self-appointed mom and bath-giver to our cats and other dog, and has never met a person that she doesn't immediately want to rush up and meet with tail wags, kisses, and snuggles, and her personality, flare for drama, and insistence on being covered with a blanket at all times leaves an impression on everyone who meets her.

Simply put, she deserves the world. I haven't been able to spoil her with the world, but I have certainly been able to spoil her with love. Unfortunately, love isn't going to be enough to help her at this time.

A couple months ago, I found a lump on Fidget, and decided to keep an eye on it. Once I realized it was getting larger and I began to feel a couple more lumps in the area, I got her into the vet to get them looked at. The vet isn't sure what the lumps are yet, but he wants to do surgery to remove the lumps and also perform a biopsy on them.

Between the surgery and the biopsy, the bill is going to be somewhere near $700, and that's just not something that I'm able to budget for at this time. While the surgery date falls on a pay week, that would still use a little more than half of my paycheck, and will make the following two weeks incredibly tight financially.

I know the holidays just ended, and money is tight for everyone right now, but any little bit would be highly appreciated. I just want to get my best friend the care that she needs and deserves.

Thank you all for the help.

Take care of yourselves and each other

[starryvibed]

23.1.22

Currently in Goa, India for a 2 week veterinary surgical training course in animal birth control, with WVS. Practicing my sutures,ligatures and modified miller’s before my first surgery 🩺🥼tomorrow. The weather is quite chilly unlike the humid beach 🌊 state that it is.

Travelled (in our free time) to :

Baga beach 🏝️

Anjuna beach food trucks 🛻🍔🍟🫔

[animals-why]

Sometimes you use things in surgery that look like mechanic's tools! Do you know what these hefty little guys are for?

[toadschooled]

In 2017 an adult tomato frog [Dyscophus guineti] was brought to veterinarian Marco Di Giuseppe after swallowing a huge copper coin. The frog made a full recovery after the coin was extracted, but the process was very invasive and required the creative use of some human medical equipment. The veterinarian detailed the entire diagnostic and extraction process in a paper which can be read here. 

While this content is more gross than what I usually share, I ultimately decided to upload it because 1. It’s very interesting, and 2. It demonstrates the importance of building a frog-safe enclosure absent of small, swallow-able objects. You should never assume your frog won’t swallow an object whole and you should never assume they’ll be smart enough to spit it out before swallowing- or in the case of this frog, physically capable of doing so. 

Small stones, wood chips, and other innocuous terrarium decorations should be avoided when keeping frogs as pets. And if you let your frogs out for exercise, keep a close eye on them so they don’t mistake your change for a snack!