Flapper’s blood work says he has high urates. We got a message that the vet wants to do an ultrasound, but we want to talk to the vet first. We thought Flapper had urates building up, and he did. But now we see urates in his waste, and that seems like an improvement. So… an ultrasound is not in our plans this week, unless the vet can explain why it needs to happen right now. We think that Flapper’s scar tissue and closed-off cloaca caused him to build up urates. But since the vet stretched out his cloaca on Saturday, he is now able to pass waste more easily and we think that means he has less of a build up of urates.

We can tell he felt terrible on Saturday, and as soon as we picked him up we could tell he was passing urates, which we know was not happening for weeks before that.

Now on Wednesday evening, Flapper is a new duck. He has energy, he’s playing, he doodles in mud puddles and he’s happy. All of that is a big improvement over Saturday. So we just need to talk to the vet and figure out why they want to do an ultrasound, and what’s next for Flapper. Stay tuned.

So far… so good.