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Originally Posted by Coda
My cockatiel has been diagnosed with gout. This is annoying in humans... it's lethal in birds. The prognosis is less than a year even with ideal treatment outcomes. There's no recovery. The condition is irreversible... the best we can do is keep it from getting worse and manage the inflammation.
Getting this diagnosis the same year we lost one of our cats... less than a week after my wife broke her arm... the day after she started having to think about quitting her job due to toxic management... It's... a really rough time right now.
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He didn't even make it through the night... we thought we were going to be able to treat him... we had medication for him to manage the symptoms... A couple days ago he was fine except for what we thought was just a broken toe that we thought was healing well.
I checked on him at 10:00 and he had turned around and gotten comfortable in his habitat... he was sleeping, still breathing then...
I checked on him at 11:00... and he wasn't breathing anymore.
I'm glad that we did the best we could for him... I'm glad after he was too stressed out to take an injection that we decided to bring him home instead of having the vet monitor him overnight... If you know bird body language, you could tell he was clearly happy to be home. He was especially happy to be back with my wife, his favorite person.
I don't know what to do... It seemed like this was going to be a good year... things seemed like they were finally going to work out in our favor... and then one of my cats, one of my childhood best friends, my grandfather, and now my bird have all passed away, and my wife broke her arm and is probably leaving the job that she was so proud of...
I'm so overwhelmed.