Humphrey update – what a week!

What a surprise this morning to wake up to snow – probably more than we’ve had here in Nottingham all winter.  Still it’s bright and shiny which is good.

But to get back to Humphrey – poor thing.  Just as I thought we’d got him nicely over his head injury, last Sunday evening he started to gag as if he couldn’t get his breath.  Monday morning he seemed better and he slept most of the day.  Which should have alerted me because he hates being in.

Tuesday he seemed no better so off to the vets… again.  This time to be told he probably had something stuck in his throat and since he wouldn’t let the vet look meant an anaesthetic and an x-ray.

When we picked him up in the evening the vet said they’d found nothing but that the throat seemed very sore.  An anti-inflammatory injection was given and we took him home.  By Thursday morning I was seriously concerned.  He’d eaten nothing since Tuesday evening, nor drunk any water and I was worried about him being dehydrated.    It was a long acting injection he’d received but I reasoned that it should have kicked in by then.

Different vet this time and the diagnosis was a chest infection.  Certainly that matched what I’d seen with him.  He couldn’t breathe easily, sounded wheezy and looked stuffed up around the eyes.  You know like we are with a cold.

So he had an anti-biotic injection this time and we went home.  Now this morning he’s much improved, is eating and of course wants to go out.  But he’s still wheezy and spluttery and has the occasional sneezing fit so I’m putting my foot down with a firm hand as they say and hardening myself against those soft eyes that tell meI’m treating him badly.

We’ll see tomorrow if it isn’t so cold and he isn’t so wheezy.  The vet told me to get him in the kitchen or the bathroom in the steam to help him breathe.  The thought of him in the shower with me doesn’t appeal!  So we’ve held  jugs of steaming water in front of him to see if that will help.

The things you do!

Let you know next week how he progresses