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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby illigersinspokane » Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:16 pm

Check out Tui the african grey ( :airmail: last footage) on you tube re flighted birds...
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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby Kim S » Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:19 am

Glad Truman is doing ok. Poor thing.
You just keep pampering him and everything will turn out great!
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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby skthurley » Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:50 pm

Oh poor Truman! I hope he has a speedy recovery.

Do avoid giving him lots of spinach. It prevents birds from absorbing and properly utilizing calcium.

Kale is a great source of vitamins and calcium too :)
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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby RudysMom » Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:09 am

Poor Truman , I hope he is doing better now :senegal:
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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby Michael » Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:12 pm

I just wanted to mention how thrilled I am with the vet place I brought Truman to. Indeed they are expensive but they provide excellent care and follow up. So while the up front cost was high, all my visitations and follow up calls were without charge. I visited Truman there four times and that is of course work for them. Also, they promised to give me a follow up call Monday. Unfortunately we ended up playing phone tag for several days but finally we got in touch today. In fact they called me. We established the home recovery course for the near future. I am just thrilled that they WANT the animal to do better and to help you out (rather than having to be a tough customer and keep asking, calling, etc). I highly recommend the place to anyone in the NY area. The higher cost is well worth it in splendid care and support.
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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby lzver » Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:43 pm

Its unfortunate that you needed their services, but its good to know that there are vets that truly care about the well being of the animal.
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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby lzver » Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:42 pm

Just checking in to see how Truman's doing. Its been a few days since your last update.
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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby Michael » Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:15 pm

He's slightly better. I've noticed more use of and strength in his bad leg. I had him out a little bit and he was able to stand on one leg or both. I also got him to step up once but he flapped himself onto my hand so he must still be feeling pain from stepping hard on it. I talked to the vet a few days ago and was basically told that at this stage, this is the best sign of healing. That is more grip/strength in the injured leg. So there isn't any drastic change going on in our routine but he's doing alright.
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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby Michael » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:38 pm

Here's a video of Truman taking his medicine:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnkJCbcufXc

Just one more day of medicine to go.
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Re: Truman's Injury, Vet Stay, and Coming Home

Postby Kim S » Fri Aug 13, 2010 4:42 am

He seems to be moving around a lot better. Looks good!
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