It started a week ago. Every so often, Ein would have a sneezing fit for 30 seconds or so. Nothing else changed. He's active, loud (down right obnoxious sometimes), eating well, and generally just being a bird.
As the week wore on, the fits became more frequent, and I started checking his nares for drainage. Everything still looked perf. No discharge, no inflammation, and no change in behavior. A bath, and some nice humidity were in order! I wondered if he'd perhaps inhaled a seed husk or some pellet dust.
Then, he seemed to improve!
He spent a couple days sans sneezing, and I was way frikkin' relieved since his vet bills this year have been so unmanageable.
WELP, yesterday the feathers around his nares were just saturated.
The sneezing fits are frequent. He's clearly got some sort of upper respiratory infection or SOMETHING. So I have to book another vet appointment.
I'm just posting to vent because I'm tired of my handsome man always being sick. I don't think he's miserable, I think he's probably just uncomfortable and has been since his heart and liver failure issues in January. At least he's still vocal, active, and eating.
I kinda feel like his health is just spiraling out of control. In the first 8 years of his life, I'd taken him to the vet all of 5 times, and only one of those was for an emergency. This year we've had 3 emergency visits and two follow-ups and it's not even July.