Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Bianco's Update - June 22






1st and 2nd Picture: Bianco's cardboard taken off him
3rd Picture: Bianco eating some chicken meat off a plate


Bianco's cardboard has been removed today. This allows him better movements and he is able to explore his surroundings better.

He had also been rejecting water from the bowl. Therefore, Concordia suggested water to be added to his chicken, to entice him to drink some water. As seen in the 3rd picture, it worked! He was slurping it up and we just topped the water up for him before allowing him to eat the chicken.

We are still looking for signs on his hind legs movements, but still nothing as yet. However, we are quite please with his front legs movements tho he is not able to push his upper half body up with his front legs... guess we have to take it slow and see his progress.

Each time when we visit him, we will massage his legs and do simple joint rotation for all legs.

Bianco's drip and pee tube have been removed. Tho he is able to pee on his own, he still requires help to express his pee as the accident may have damaged some nerves or otherwise, his nerves around his bladder may still be sore/bruised. Hopefully overtime, he would be able to pee on his own.. but right now, he'll require the use of diapers and pee pads to keep him dry.

His wound is healing well and in about 3 days time, they may remove some of his stitches and try to get him to try hydrotherapy.

Today, we are encouraged to carry him out of his cage and seat him on our lap. We were advised to carefully support his body as it is still quite sore after the surgery and fragile.

Finally, hes able to feel our body warmth next to him and he was just feeling so relaxed.

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