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[MiniMacaw]

I just talked to the Drs office. They got busy after we left and still haven’t finished the notes/pharmacy portion but I have the first two meds.
TMS SMZ (48mg/ml) 0.75 ml twice daily
Meloxicam (2mg/ml) 0.37 ml once daily

He got some pretty potent intramuscular injections today as well to help.

 

[Macawnutz]

Just remember you will have to be the bad guy in his eyes to do the right thing.

He will get over it, the meds and toweling.. Just be the nurse for now. I know it's hard but put the emotions aside and do what you have to do.

 

[Hankmacaw]

I hope that he can tolerate that TMS SMZ (it is a sulfa based antibiotic) It Wouldn't even hit Hanks's stomach and back up it would come. Anyway, be ready. Jasper tolerates it fairly well.

 

[Macawnutz]

I hope that he can tolerate that TMS SMZ (it is a sulfa based antibiotic) It Wouldn't even hit Hanks's stomach and back up it would come. Anyway, be ready. Jasper tolerates it fairly well.

Oh yah, that's the yucky one. My son and Korbel have sensitivity to sulfa.

 

[MiniMacaw]

I hope that he can tolerate that TMS SMZ (it is a sulfa based antibiotic) It Wouldn't even hit Hanks's stomach and back up it would come. Anyway, be ready. Jasper tolerates it fairly well.

Oh no...well here’s hoping he tolerates it. Poor guy doesn’t need to add retching to his list of problems today.

 

[MiniMacaw]

Oh yah, that's the yucky one. My son and Korbel have sensitivity to sulfa.

He doesn’t start it until really late tonight, so something to look forward to trying.

 

[Macawnutz]

Yah.. Like ML's experience if Korbel doesn't tolerate something... it hits the bottom and comes flying back out. My son gets rashes.

 

[MiniMacaw]

He’s finally letting himself sleep.

 

[Macawnutz]

Awwww he is so sad...

Do you have 60cc syringes?

 

[Monaco]

Oh, precious! I think Seamus is perfect, a little Irish luck never hurt anyone!

 

[rocky'smom]

Poor big guy, he has found his guardian angel with you all. Because his mouth is so tender from the infections, I wonder if some really soften (mushy) pellets would help. Almost to baby cereal stage of mushy. I know that Nicky had feed little Eddie with soften pellets for awhile because Eddie had cracked beak.

 

[aooratrix]

A lot of his behavior is due to feeling awful, as you know. Like Sarah said, you may have to be tough with him to medicate him, but he'll realize that you saved him. Once he heals and starts to feel better, he'll improve by leaps and bounds. So glad you took him in.

 

[MiniMacaw]

Poor big guy, he has found his guardian angel with you all. Because his mouth is so tender from the infections, I wonder if some really soften (mushy) pellets would help. Almost to baby cereal stage of mushy. I know that Nicky had feed little Eddie with soften pellets for awhile because Eddie had cracked beak.

This is what I’m trying tonight. He’s just sleeping a lot now, but he’ll have mush pellets when he wakes up as an option.

 

[MiniMacaw]

Awwww he is so sad...

Do you have 60cc syringes?

He’s feeling it a bit now. But he does look better at least without all the rot in his beak.

They gave me only little syringes. I don’t have a 60cc hanging around but I can get one first thing tomorrow.

 

[Macawnutz]

I'll link you the good ones tomorrow. Maybe get a few in case he wants to bypass touching that beak with food. Maybe a few syringes and some handfeeging formula. Poor guy.

 

[KimKim]

Wishing you and him luck

 

[Shezbug]

Poor boy! I can't wait to see his health and happiness transformation now he is with you. I won't say he is lucky to have found you because he deserves all the love and excellent care that he will get from you, I sure am glad your paths crossed though

 

[Sarahmoluccan]

Bless you for taking Seamus in!! I wish you both all the best!!

 

[MiniMacaw]

Well, in case this post hasn’t made you sad enough, this should do it. I received this pic today of Seamus before his previous owner got the excess beak removed. That’s his lower beak that grew an excess portion up and over his nostril. Who knows how long he lived that way? No wonder his upper beak is slanted to the side. This pic was taken back in 2017. Constant meds (different ones, sometimes repeats) since on and off. The owner declined most diagnostics (and I’m not condemning them, things happen, budgets happen and they did the right thing by finding him a new home eventually) and so the problem grew because who knows if those meds did anything...his dr said today the one he was on wouldn’t affect his infections so he may have been toweled and given oral meds to the point of his extreme towel and syringe phobia for nothing, every time.

 

[Flokirocks]

Gosh, I can't even begin to imagine the pain and discomfort he was in
Seamus is one lucky boy to get the love and care he so deserves from now on