As the island gets back to normal functioning, the clinic settles back into routine. All preparations are go for next week’s Quiz Night which is looking to be great fun and full of laughs.
I am delighted to (finally) inform all the friends of Mama, that she is officially recovered from her bout of fish poisoning. Possibly due to her age (and perhaps the fact that she is such a pig she probably ate a huge amount of the dodgy fish she scavenged), she has taken MUCH longer to get better than we would have hoped. At first, she presented unlike a fish poisoning with respiratory issues and major neurological abnormalities and we suspected she had something more dire than fish poisoning. Over a few days however, she progressed to become a more typical case, though a very severe one. It took Mama six weeks to attempt walking, another two weeks to succeed and two weeks later now she is back to her normal (somewhat thinner) self; escorting the volunteers to the beach and scavenging for food with only a slightly shaky head. A successful diet method that I wouldn’t recommend!!

Surgery is incredibly busy with Lucinda and Fiona both superfast surgeons; Gregg is booking in 10 desexings a day! And with the rain, we have had to do lots of visits as people can’t bring their animals in to us. This means more than one occasion of traipsing knee deep through mud to find a lame pig, chasing a goat around its tether until it wound itself tight enough to catch, and crawling under flooded houses to catch abandoned kittens.
Fun times!
Now we are down to one vet for the entire month of January, so looking forward to the ensuing mayhem and hoping one of our eager, blog-reading vets might fancy a tropical holiday :-)