[Gpdd] HEALTH: Madonna's UTI

[Kathleen Geoghegan]

Hi Pat and the Prairie Pigs,

THANK YOU so much for the kind message and your lovely words.

I have been feeling so sad and so guilty... Our pigs depend on us for
everything and when they are sick it is so hard not to feel
completely responsible :'(  But your reply is so nice and kind, and made me
feel so much better that I wasn't getting it totally wrong or making
mistakes with my home treatment for her <3

Madonna loves the Bactrim, it's her first time on this medication but she
was looking for more after she finished her first dose and she kept trying
to lick her :-)

Thank you again for taking the time to reply, and thank you for the
suggestion.  I will definitely make sure that Madonna and her friend Polly
get extra fresh bedding all the time to keep them fragrant and glamorous :-)

Lots of love to you and the Prairie Pigs.

Kate, Luis, Madonna, Polly, Bugs & Peter in Spain




On Monday, March 21, 2016, pat schuett <bunzella at yahoo.ca
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bunzella at yahoo.ca');>> wrote:

>
> Hi Kate,
>
> I'm so glad to hear that Madonna is feeling a bit better already.
> Probably bathing the skin and giving her clean bedding would have made her
> more comfortable right away, and now that the UTI is being treated, you're
> getting at the root cause, too.   Bactrim is a good antibiotic for piggy
> UTIs and much easier to get into them than the nasty tasting stuff.
>
> It sounds as if you have done all the right things already, and the only
> other thing I could suggest is to keep her bedding extra clean for the next
> little while until she is recovered from the UTI.  Older piggies are more
> sedentary than youngsters, but I suspect her skin problem was probably
> related to the UTI.  She wasn't feeling well and with you away, may have
> also had less incentive than usual to move around.  Why do these things
> always happen when we're on holiday?  It's not fair!
>
> You are not doing much wrong if Madonna is already six years old, but I'm
> very glad to hear she's on the mend --- thanks for adding the update!
>
> Pat and the Prairie Pigs
>