University of Illinois

Lily is back at UofI. Last night around 7:00pm she looked like she was colicking again. She kept wanting to roll, would stumble and almost fall when we were trying to walk her very obviously in pain. Both vets at Hoerr Vet. Clinic are still out of town. I called Spoon River Animal Clinic and their vets were out on an emergency. They suggested we don't wait but haul her down to UofI. I called Steven Marchal to see if he would pick up my truck and bring it out to the farm. Not only did he do that he also filled up the gas tank. Steven called UofI to make arrangements and we left for there around 10:30pm. The good news is that they don't think there is an impaction or a displacement of her intestines. The bad news is that there is a lot of (bad) fluid in her belly. We left her in the good hands of the vets and students of UofI around 1:30am and made it home just before 3:30am. Now I just wait and pay and wait and pay. I gave them a deposit of $1000.00 and told them that surgery was a last resort.