Hey everyone,
It's me, Arthur, again! My mom wrote that last entry, and she didn't even remember to sign it! How silly of her. Anyway, I am back to my duties. Not sure why she didn't 'et me write last time!
We took the Cuban Amazon birdies on another roadtrip today. It was a long day but Dahlia and I still had some fun playing.
The doctor said that Cypress' surgical site looked good! He got a new bandage and mom took some pics. She wrote on them to try and explain what was happening.
He has to go back in 2 weeks for another bandage change and then again 2 weeks after that for radiographs to see how he is healing.
Here are the pics:
Pretty interesting, isn't it!? Ok, I am off to take a nap, hope you had a good day!
WOOF!
ArthurGOOD
ps - mom said our Rally numbers came today so we can now enter Rally trials if we want to!
Cypress is one of the Cuban Amazon Parrots that lives here. This week, he broke his wing and needed to go to Boston for emergency surgery! First, we went to Greylock Animal Hospital to see Dr. Michelle. She was wonderful, but sent on to Boston to see the specialists. The wonderful doctors at Angell Memorial, Dr. Orcutt and Dr. Trout, were able to put pins in his wing and an external fixature to make the bones rejoin and hopefully heal. It seems it is a very longshot that he might ever be able to fly again, but we are still keeping our fingers crossed that it may just happen - you never know!
Here is an except from Dr. Orcutt's report: "Dr. Trout, one of our surgeons , did an amazing job repairing the fracture while the Avian/Exotics service monitored anesthesia. He placed a pin through the 2 ends pieces of the humerus to align them and further stabilized the bone to prevent rotation on the long axis by placing small pins horizontally through the bone and connecting them with an acrylic bar on the outside of the wing (a KE apparatus). I covered the KE apparatus with a soft padded bandage so that Cypress wouldn't bother it. Post-op radiographs show very good apposition of the boen ends, so now we just have to see how well the bone responds and heals at the fracture site along with assessing the healing of the injured soft tissues as well."
Here are photos of him in his recovery area. It's been changed around a little since these pics were taken but you get the idea. Nothing to climb on so no change to take a fall. A huge variety of foods are being offered to try and encourage him to eat.
In these pics you see dried fruits and nuts. But he's also being offerred scrambled eggs, pellets, corn on the cob, blueberries, fresh veggie mix, sprouts, warm mashes, junk treats, etc.
Here is a video of him eating a bit.
Here is a video at Angell Memorial when we picked him up. His friend Mulberry came along to give him company for the ride home. They were *thrilled* to see one another!
My sister Dahlia got her rabies shot today! So, she is all legal now. She weighed 30.3 pounds and will be 6 months old in exactly one week.
WOOF!
ArthurGOOD!
On Sunday, my mom and my Auntie Barb and Uncle Gordy and Auntie Kathy and Uncle Craig all came to my Grandma Lynn's house and they spent all day putting up a big fence!
When they finally finished, they let us out to run and play! We had a lot of fun!
See?
That's Lacy on the lower left and Dahlia's mom Ivy on the top next to me!
That's silly BJ. He's ok.
That's Lynn's rescue sheltie Jade, she's a sable merle.