Owlet
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Hey guys I'm just looking for some thoughts and opinions regarding xrays I had done of Lincoln today. Disclaimer though that I AM reaching out to a secondary vet to hopefully get more information. This is just to help me prep for that secondary visit and consider what questions I may want to ask the vet.
Lincoln has been acting a bit off the last weekish. It started after he fell off of his perch. He hasn't really been eating, even things he normally really really likes. I tried a number of things and he's still just not really interested in eating. He has also just been... off. I don't want to say hes lethargic but he just doesn't really want to do much. He will engage with me if I am with him but otherwise he just kind of wants to hang out. Before this happened I had started introducing him to nail files so I can file his beak without having to take him to the vet where he'd have to be sedated and immensely stressed out. Initially he was really excited about it and engaged really well. Now he just... sits there for the most part. He doesn't really care about the almonds anymore and this boy LOVES almonds.
Now with the xrays that were taken they didn't see any obvious breaks, but they noticed two things. One (circled in red), his kidney was rather enlarged and when they palpated in that area it felt really firm. In the xrays (all of them) you can also see a few very bright spots. We aren't sure what those are. The vet said they could be kidney stones or just something in the GI track that was overlaying the kidney. But since we can see it in all xrays I don't really know. The second thing they saw (circled in blue), was his air sacks appeared rather dense and spotty where they should have been mostly black in the xray. Now, my theory about that is that I believe that one of the owners previous to me was a heavy smoker around him as when I received him, the cage he came with was covered in tar.
We also took blood today but it's gonna be a few days before I get the results of those, I will share them when I get them.
The quality of these xrays arent the best since its just a picture of a picture on the computer. If they send me the pictures in the visit notes I will include those.
Lincoln has been acting a bit off the last weekish. It started after he fell off of his perch. He hasn't really been eating, even things he normally really really likes. I tried a number of things and he's still just not really interested in eating. He has also just been... off. I don't want to say hes lethargic but he just doesn't really want to do much. He will engage with me if I am with him but otherwise he just kind of wants to hang out. Before this happened I had started introducing him to nail files so I can file his beak without having to take him to the vet where he'd have to be sedated and immensely stressed out. Initially he was really excited about it and engaged really well. Now he just... sits there for the most part. He doesn't really care about the almonds anymore and this boy LOVES almonds.
Now with the xrays that were taken they didn't see any obvious breaks, but they noticed two things. One (circled in red), his kidney was rather enlarged and when they palpated in that area it felt really firm. In the xrays (all of them) you can also see a few very bright spots. We aren't sure what those are. The vet said they could be kidney stones or just something in the GI track that was overlaying the kidney. But since we can see it in all xrays I don't really know. The second thing they saw (circled in blue), was his air sacks appeared rather dense and spotty where they should have been mostly black in the xray. Now, my theory about that is that I believe that one of the owners previous to me was a heavy smoker around him as when I received him, the cage he came with was covered in tar.
We also took blood today but it's gonna be a few days before I get the results of those, I will share them when I get them.
The quality of these xrays arent the best since its just a picture of a picture on the computer. If they send me the pictures in the visit notes I will include those.
