jjsunlucky
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- Dec 26, 2012
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- Parrots
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Cockatiel-"Petie", Quaker-"Marley" (RIP 11/21/12)
"Buku"- Lovebird
"Jezebel"- Quaker Parrot
At 7:00pm, the day before Thanksgiving my beloved Quaker, Marley, AKA Green chicken, passed away, while emergency vets relently worked to save his life. About 2 1/2 weeks prior, my lil guy popped off his cage, while I was on the floor painging a canvas. I heard him and turned to the left to pick him up...Well, in the process I slightly stepped on his leg, breaking it. I felt the pop. Horrified and in tears I immediately took him to my avian day hour vet. They wrapped his leg and calmed me and said he more than likely would be just fine, and he was for the first two days. However, on the third day his toe nail on the foot started to bleed. I got the bleeding stopped, but he continued to pick at it every time it stopped. I called the vet right away, but could not get ahold of anyone. So I then took him to an emergency vet and they re-wrapped his leg and said to keepan eye on him and hopefully it was due to the tightness of his bandage and Marley picking at it. Upon arriving home, it started again and he kept picking at it. The bleeding was getting harder and harder to stop. This time once I got it to stop. I held him, towled and just wouldnt allow him to even get to it. This continued for almost a week 1/2. I didn't even take any time to sleep and I mean that. I stayed up for 60hrs, the first round and had my son watch him the same way while I slept for a few hrs. I continued this way the whole time. I also had fed and watered my baby the entire time. Then we made another visit to another vet one weekend evening, because the first two vets wernt open, and they had to fit poor Marley with a collar, then two collars. Then on the evening before Thanksgiving it got severe again and we took him to the emergency center for surgery to amputate his leg at a last effort to try to stop the bleeding and save his life. However, during the hour prep for surgery, he lost his fight. He was just too weak to survive. I was and still am devistated about what I have caused to happed to my love. I lost a piece of my heart that day and not sure I can ever forgive myself. I'm even scared I will accidently harm another one of my birds. The way I felt when I felt his leg break, the weakness he fought so hard through, the way I felt when the doctor told me he didn't make it...and the worst of it, every time Marley would ever trip when playing, or even nip he would say what he said to me that day.... "I'm sorry, it's o.k." Yes, that is exactly what he said to me that day.
I can't stop thinking that if I had only turned the other direction, he would still be with me. I just wish I could get through a few minutes without replaying it all over and over again. I miss and cherish every single moment I had with my Marley.
I can't stop thinking that if I had only turned the other direction, he would still be with me. I just wish I could get through a few minutes without replaying it all over and over again. I miss and cherish every single moment I had with my Marley.