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Well he had the echocardiogram done today. It was done by the cardiologist Dr. Driggers uses, but it was done at a different office since it’s a mobile vet. The cardiologist can’t restrain Widget by himself while doing the ultrasound, and his vet techs had no idea how to restrain a bird. They were asking me how to do it and originally were squeezing his body rather than holding his neck. They tried three times and Widget was making squeaks in pain. When they let him out the third time he immediately got fluffed up and could barely open his eyes.
We decided to give up after that. Now I’m very scared he’s been injured internally based on how he was acting. I asked if it’s possible he was injured and they said no. It might have just been the severe stress (since usually when restrained at the vet they know what they’re doing and he’s only restrained for a few minutes).
If he is okay next week we will try again with the cardiologist actually coming to the normal vet so one of the vets can restrain him properly while he has the procedure done.
We decided to give up after that. Now I’m very scared he’s been injured internally based on how he was acting. I asked if it’s possible he was injured and they said no. It might have just been the severe stress (since usually when restrained at the vet they know what they’re doing and he’s only restrained for a few minutes).
If he is okay next week we will try again with the cardiologist actually coming to the normal vet so one of the vets can restrain him properly while he has the procedure done.