Friday, April 4, 2008

KY and rubber gloves

last night, stu noticed that there was something a little weird about jemaine.  we went to bed thinking that it wasnt anything big and that it would go away but this morning, when i got up for work, i noticed that it had gotten worse.  stu called the vet (yes, there is actually a vet for amphibians) and made an appointment for 3:30.  we decided to make one for hurley at the same time because his head hasnt really gotten any better and he scraped it like three months ago.  

anyway, i got off of work a little early and we went to the vet and we found out that jemaine has prolapsed anus.  its just as disgusting as it sounds so ill not describe it but for all you sickos out there, you can google it.  just dont do an image search.  nothing good can come of that.

anyway, they fixed it.  after about two hours of waiting and a $250.00 vet bill.  we also were given all this medicine for both frogs (wormer and antibiotics) which we have to give everyday orally (we have to use a spatula to open their mouths because they are frogs and dont want us to stick something in their mouths).  the best part is that the vet told us that jemaine's prolapsed anus could happen again in the next 72 and we can fix it ourselves, unless its really bad.  we just have to put some KY jelly on the end of a q-tip and "fix him."  yea,  it was a laugh going to safeway today and trying to hide KY personal lubricant and rubber gloves between the oranges and fruit juice.  awesome.



oh yea, and hurley is fine.  we just have to give him his antibiotic and put a drop of some medicine stuff on his nose everyday for the next two weeks.

1 comment:

Kenton Henry said...

Poor frogs! That's so gross... Glad they're going to get better though. Sorry about the huge vet bill. Lame!