Vet Adventure !

We at Team Makas are delighted to know that our brother-in-law Harald's emergency back surgery went perfectly this morning and that he is resting and recovering in the hospital tonight and should be home tomorrow. We are looking forward to hearing stories about how Cecilia takes care of an immobile husband and the twins by herself!

We oursleves had an emergency trip to the vet yesterday with Suljo, who was trying to lay an egg all day but couldn't get it out. We didn't realize how dangerous it was, but finally called the vet to find out what we should do, and they told us to come in immediately. So we did. Apparently, because little cockatiels are so fragile, eventually her utirine wall would tear from all the pushing and the egg would fall out into the body cavity and she'd die. So the vet put her under general anesthesia, and tried to help her push, but that wasn't working, so then the vet used tools to go up in her and collapse the egg and pull it and all the pieces out. The vet told us there was only a 75% chance she could save her, so Miran was of course very upset while we waited, but everything turned out perfectly and we brought her right home. She also got a hormone shot to discourage her from producing any more eggs right now.

She has some antibiotics and pain killers that we have to give her for the next few days and a follow-up appointment next week with the vet. We are also supposed to keep her separated from the other birds and in a small cage so she won't fly or climb too much and stress herself. And we are especially supposed to keep her away from her boyfriend, Tito so she won't be thinking about egg-laying and he won't be trying you-know-what. So we have her in small cage upstairs in the office, and she is enjoying spending so much time with Miran, I think she actually likes him more than Tito. Tito on the other hand is very upset about this arrangement and has screamed for a day and a half now. We can't even sit downstairs to watch TV because he makes so much noice. Its very sweet that he misses her so much, but also a little annoying. Miran brough Tito up to see her yesterday for a few minutes so he would know she was ok, and that actually seemed to quieten him, but only for about an hour.

Here is a picture of Suljo convalescing: