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Darwin at the vets AGAIN

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Honestly, sometimes I wonder how I cope with all of this, especially with Darwin! As you all know, he was treated for psittacosis for 6 weeks with antibiotics, a week in to that we thought he had a secondary illness which turned out to be aspergillosis so he had to be treated for 6 weeks with an anti-fungal. But NOW something else is wrong

I rushed Darwin to the vets after I noticed he had stripped one leg of all his pretty feathers and created a bald patch under his left wing. His right leg is starting to go like it too. But on top of that, he has feathers growing in the wrong direction. Last night was a real mess. I called in and had to rush over but I couldn't get a lift so I had to get the bus. The bus never turned up on time so I was waiting for almost an hour at the stop when I got a phone call asking me if I could meet my vet at the closer practice. Of course I was fine with that. I'd be there quicker! But then I got a voicemail saying it would be out of hours prices for everything and the consult would be £99! Well, with my discount it would be less but still! So I went anyways, not caring how much I'd end up paying and eventually got there just on time. There was no sign of my vet anywhere and I'd been sat there for about 2 hours when somebody comes over to me and says "he didn't know he was coming". I was offered to see another vet but I said no I wanted MY vet, my AVIAN vet to be exact. They offered me to hospitalize him for the night and give him emergency treatment but he really didn't need that and if it was stress related then it would only have made it worse so I got my carrier and waited around for buses again for a few hours to go home. Turns out there was a mix up with reception

Anyways, I had to take Darwin in today at 10AM. He spoke allllll the way there on the bus shouting "NO DAAAARWIN!" at every person who walked past him... embarrassed! We got there and my vet had a really good look at him, asked me loads of questions about his environment, cage, toys etc. and of course nothing has changed, he has plenty of toys, nothing new at the moment. We came to the decision to do blood work and test him for PBFD. I am BEGGING something good happens to me for once and that it ISN'T PBFD because I will be more than heart broken. Darwin is my baby. He was a good boy, let the vet take his feathers and take one huge blood sample from his jugular. He has also had blood work sent off for a complete blood count (CBC) to see if we can find anything underlying. I must of spent nearly an hour in there. He's also being put on metacam for 7 days as a bit of pain relief, cause he looks like he's in a bit of pain from the plucking

On the way home I stopped at the care home where that my nan manages and popped in to see her with him. Needless to say he thoroughly enjoyed all of the attention he got there from the staff. He's been so good today, even after being grabbed, jabbed and plucked he's still a loving little mess

Please keep Darwin in your thoughts, we should have some test results back by the end of next week fingers crossed
 
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Thank you :D he seems fine in himself minus the baldy patch at the moment and he is done with his pain meds :)
 
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