A Tribute to RUSS......

12 September 2013 @ around 9am I received a call from the vet.  The Dr told me that Russ passed away that very morning.  There's a guardian that stays overnight in the "hospital" and he did informed the Dr when Russ's condition deteriorate.  Unfortunately, when the Dr arrived back in the "hospital" Russ  had decided to migrate to a better place.

It all started on 3 September in the middle of the night or wee hours in the morning of 4 September  Russ started vomiting and having diarrhea and he did not ate his dinner at all.  We thought that he ate something that he was not suppose to eat while he was playing in the garden and was trying to regurgitate it out.  We didn't immediately brought him to the vet because vomiting and diarrhea is pretty common with Russ every now and then but usually it only last for a day.  On top of that, he had history of gassy stomach many many years back when we gave him too much unhealthy snacks.  So, on the 3rd day the diarrhea stop but there's still occasional vomiting episodes.  We suspected he had gassy stomach again because we bought a new treat for him!

Anyway, Russ condition didn't improve and we finally decided to bring him in to the vet.  The first thing the Dr asked was his age and that he suspected Russ is having problem with his kidney because of his symptoms and his smelly breath.  We admitted Russ into the "hospital" and tests were done on him.  Results came back not good at all when the Dr called.  His kidney was infected with bacteria and his blood had high level of toxins.  Dr said to monitor again and to test again the next day to see if there's any improvement after medication.  The next day, the results for his kidney improved dramatically but Russ was still very weak.  Dr said he just lie in the cage and did not want to move at all.  Therefore, more tests were done on Russ because now they suspect it was his liver as Dr find that Russ is quite yellow and there's bilirubin in his blood.

Finally, on the morning of September 12 Dr said that his death is most likely due to pancreatitis.  We didn't expect Russ to leave us so soon.  Today I heard Aston telling the new kakak (we have a new maid) that Russ is sick outside cannot come home.  All this while I thought that he had forgotten about Russ but today he had proved otherwise.  Ever since Russ migrated, Aston did not asked once about him which automatically made me think that he had forgotten about him.

Anyway, we did not have a personalised cremation for Russ as after seeing him suffer just before he migrated I strongly believed that he is in a better place now......