Harley Rehab Update

[beachbumtx]

HIya!,
Friday, I tube fed her twice and she accepted all of it. She did not try to swim at all while I was there. However, from 10pm until I left at 1am, she continuously vocalized with a series of clicks. Not many of the animals we had during rehab vocalized very much. She is a chatter box. On the down side, she had a lot of foam coming out of her blow hole and her breaths didn't smell good. A sign of pnuemonia (SP?).
Saturday, I tubed her twice. She accepted all the first time, but the second she did not. This is the first time she has not accepted all of her food. She continues to vocalized. However, she has begun to make strides at swimming on her own. When I showed up at 8pm, she was swimming in her own and had done so for about a half hour. They were trying to catch her so we could tube her. About 8:15pm we finanlly tubed her. After thet, she tried to swim on her own for short periods of time. We still have a person in the tank with her at all times to catch her whenshe stops swimming. She has leaqrned where the walls are and avoids them while swimming. She no longer has foam coming from the blow hole or foul smelling breath. Hopefully it was just a false alarm.
So far so good...

 

[saltymom]

Good luck. You and your people are Angels.

 

[lovethesea]

I want your job!!!
Ok thanks for the update. I have 2 kids constantly asking about her. Just thinking about someone having to catch a dolphin make me chuckle a bit. :nervous: Hopefully once her infection clears she will have more energy to swim.
Thanks again for the update, get more pics of her when you can
Thanks also to Santa and the elves too.

 

[beachbumtx]

Forgot to mentioned, about 3am it started raining. At 5:30am, there was standing water in the aqua cell. I left at 6am to head back home, it took me an hour to get home. Normally its a 30 minute drive. My street was flooded. Luckily, my apartment complex is raised above the street level and there was no water around the apartments. I turned over the tube and we had over a foot a rain. Some parts of Corpus had standing water up to 4' (water draining into low lying areas). I tell you what, it was the most severe series of thunderstorms I have seen in a while. I live in a area that doesn't get much rain...about 22" to 26" yearly. Our storms are usually lightening and wind, but little rain. Rain ended about 3pm this afternoon.

 

[beachbumtx]

I called out there this evening to get an update and to make sure I had the correct time I will work this evening (midnight to 4am). Well, I learned that she is swimming completely on her own. YAY! Also, she is taking whole fish, so no more tubing as long as she is eating. YAY! again. Blood work came back with normal results!!!! YAY!!! All looks good as long as this pelagic species can stand having boundries.

 

[lovethesea]

:jumping: :jumping: :cheer:

Oh, I hope she continues to do well..thanks for the update!

 

[shels]

I am so happy to hear how well she is doing.
Pictures please if you can

 

[beachbumtx]

Originally posted by Shels
I am so happy to hear how well she is doing.
Pictures please if you can
Ih you didn't catch the pictures in the original post, here is a link to them. Original Post

 

[beachbumtx]

Tony Amos with Harley

 

[beachbumtx]

Tony Amos and Tim Tristin with Harley

 

[beachbumtx]

Another picture with Tony and Harley.

 

[lovethesea]

thanks for more pics. I am so glad she is doing so well.
My kids are trying to figure out where she can stay in St. Louis so they can be with her.

 

[beachbumtx]

Originally posted by lovethesea
thanks for more pics. I am so glad she is doing so well.
My kids are trying to figure out where she can stay in St. Louis so they can be with her.

How old are your kids?

 

[lovethesea]

daughter is 11 and son is 7. How old do you think Harley is?
She seems so small in "Santas" arms.

 

[beachbumtx]

Originally posted by lovethesea
daughter is 11 and son is 7. How old do you think Harley is?
She seems so small in "Santas" arms.
Probably about a year old, but not positive.

 

[lovethesea]

bumpity, bump !!!

my kids are driving me nuts.........how is she doing?

 

[beachbumtx]

Not much has changed. She continues to swim on here own and is eating all of her fish and every meal. She has been the easiest animal that I have worked with. Unfortunately, I can't be out there this next week and a half due to finals. Gotta get this semester over with. Once it done, I can spend more time out there and probably some during the day so I can get some more pictures.

 

[brownleaf]

Please do more pics, and good luck with your finals!

 

[lovethesea]

oh yes, good luck with the finals. (ugh, don't envy you) And I am sure Santa and the elves with care for that sweet girl.

 

[lovethesea]

bump for sinner