Flying-fox has an xray: this is Linti
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2024
- I managed to get an xray for Linti today; I really didn't hold out much hope for her damaged elbow because it was "clicking" when I moved it around. I suspected that her elbow had been dislocated recently and while it was back in place, that the damage would be to her ligaments and tendons and soft tissues.
Soft tissue injuries generally heal with time but ligaments and tendons are difficult things to heal.
I'm grateful to Summer Hill vets for fitting me in and giving their expertise. It took quite a while for the xray machine to decide to exorcise its gremlins and start to work (thanks Jess for checking all the connections and cleaning them out).
Sometimes you just don't get the result you were hoping for; on examination, vet Lydia can feel the dislocation looseness; no matter what we do Linti is going to end up with a stiff joint which means she's not releasable.
Flying-foxes need to have the joints and power of an elite athlete; Linti wasn't going go be releasable, ever.
Reluctantly we euthanased Linti; sometimes you can't win them all; sometimes you can't even win one...
Tolga Bat Hospital takes donations for our batties. Tolga is an awesome place in Far North Queensland, which has charity status. By sending donations to them, they get a percentage (and deserve every cent) and they can allocate money to me for batty expenses without it becoming part of my income stream (which makes tax time difficult).
tolgabathospital.org/donate/
Mention Megabattie or Meg in the PayPal message box and the money will find its way to me.
If no message box appears, please email Jenny to tell her that the money is for me.
IMPORTANT: If you pay through the PayPal Giving Fund, can you please email Jenny with the AMOUNT DONATED and the name under which you have donated, OR just forward along the PP receipt.
The Giving Fund doesn’t charge any fees (so the bats get more money) but PP doesn’t itemise out the amount, they just send a total every month, and we don’t know if the money is for Tolga or for Megabattie.
Here’s Jenny’s email.
jenny@tolgabathospital.org
Thank you for sharing the reality of rescue. Unfortunately all can not be saved but none will be left suffering.
Poor thing. She looked sad.
RIP Linti
A sad ending indeed. Thank you for devoting so much time to poor Lintl, even though you suspected the worst. You ensured the final hours were, at least, pain free and comfortable.
That's so sad, poor little Linti. Sorry Meg.
Poor dear, thanks for all you do for them Meg
Poor Linti 😞I was afraid of that. Everyone did their best and hoped for the best. Mother Nature is too often cruelly unforgiving. Thank you, Meg and others, who fought for little Linti.
I didn't think the injury was fixable, however I was happily prepared to be both wrong and surprised
😢 She was warm, comfortable & safe for a time - Meg, appreciate the fast update ❤
Dear Linti, what a sweet girl, watching you as you examined her, Meg. I’m sorry she would be unreleasable. As you’ve said, there are no wheelchairs and life-long convalescent homes for bats (except for Mandi). RIP Linti 🌈🦇💕
Thank you, Meg for all you do for these sweet, adorable batties. I always go to your description first to see what happens before I watch. I can’t watch this one, so I’m letting it play to the end (muted) while I read the comments. Somewhere I read that it benefits your channel to let it play through to the end even if I don’t actually watch. Thank you for enduring the pain while I can mute it …. You’re a strong caring person.
Thanks Trixie; it all helps.
I don't get paralysed by grief over this because it's part of bat rescue and if I couldn't manage the death, I'd have opted out a long time ago.
I have a peculiar brain which can compartmentalise the death without being distressed by it. It helps if I name them so I can remember them as an individual who had a story and was loved; it helps that I share the loss on YT, so I'm not alone in the loss.
I don't expect people to watch if they can't cope with it, but I do think you get stronger and more compassionate (and realistic) if you let some of the loss into yourself.
Oh Meg! I got so excited when little Linti got her fight back! Only to find tha her injuries were too severe for her to survive. At least she passed without pain and loved by many thanks to you!❤❤❤
Go Jess (& Meg)! Ouch! doesn't look like a nice injury to get, especially as a battie.
RIP Linti💔
Sorry linti, sorry Meg. Linti was helping you clean her wing poor darling
❤❤❤RIP sweetie pie...😪💔💕
RIP most precious Linti.
Oh I’m so sad 😞
RIP sweet Linti
Poor t'ing.
She was so sweet the way she let you manipulate the elbow with torn tendons/ligaments (had to be painful) without biting. They know they're in the best hands possible.
I'm sad you had to let her go.
I was trying to see if she had any stiffening or guarding as a pain response to the movements I was making. If she fought me or guarded I'd have stopped but she seemed quite relaxed. The more information I get from checking them out before xray, the easier it is to make an assessment as to what is actually going on.
It sounds cruel but in hospital a doctor would manipulate the joint to see where the patient said it hurts and what movements the joint will make without extreme pain.
I'm always guided by the bat though as to how far I will take the movements.
Interestingly with Foveaux from last week, she was very stiff in her legs and wouldn't let me stretch them out; during the xray she was also very stiff (and she should have been very relaxed). I still don't know why she was stiff but she's doing well now and there were not pelvic or spinal injuries seen.
Thank you for doing your best for Linti and all of the other batties who come through. Because of you and the other loving batty people, they all have the best chance possible. ❤🙏
😢RIP : Linti😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️
Sad outcome,,,,,so sorry she can’t be fixed, FLY High Linti 💔🦇
So sad. She was such a cutie the way she just let you do what you needed to do. Fly high Linti 💔
Oh no I'm so sorry we lost Lindi 😢😢😢
Dear Meg, thank you so much for trying so hard and devoting all your love and energy into trying to save lovely Linti. God bless you every single day ❤ and dear Linti spent her passing surrounded by immense love ❤
Awww, sorry Meg. You did your best, as always, ❤ and it's fantastic to be able to confirm problems pro/con with xrays. RIP Linti 🦇❤
Sad to hear, but I definitely understand some things can't be fixed or lived with, when it comes to wild animals.
It would have healed eventually but wouldn't have healed to flight capability.
To heal it would require immobilising it for a bit, then it would have been stiff.
Bugger!
Sweet Linti ❤ fly free sweetheart. Sorry Meg, thank you for always giving 100%
I’m sorry, Meg. 😢🤍💙
So sorry Linti, fly free in spirit
Oh Meg, I am so sorry, RIP Linti. it will be wonderful when we can repair this and they can be released. To think one little area that is injured spells doom. She was a little feisty one. Bless her
Meg I'm so very sorry!😓💓 I know darned well you NEVER make or take these decisions lightly, never! Thank you for doing everything possible, to see if Linti's survival was possible.💓
I was hoping her injury was recoverable. Rest in peace Linti. Meg you are are a treasure. You have seen enough right to know when something is wrong, even if you don’t know exactly. I too love learning new things.
I was very surprised to learn about the elbow caps; in previous xrays I had just assumed it was an extension of the ulnar process or something like that.
17 years of batty rescue and somehow I'd missed out on that little gem of info.
Poor Linti, I was sure she was recovering. RIP Linti, sweet girl
The elbow thing was the problem
@@Megabattie i know the elbow is so important for a bat
So so sorry Meg. And beautiful little Linti. Had so much hope for her. She seemed so sweet. Like she was actually helping you! Only at the end did she get squawky and I think she was twisted maybe? Something really hurting her? RIP little darling. If that was her baby i hope they are together. Thank you Meg.🙏🏼💔🕊️😓🦇
I’m so sorry 💔
Damn, i was half expecting there to be complications with this one. So sad, but we can't fix them all. Fly free lil one
I’m so sorry Meg. Bless you for all your love & care for these little souls. ❤❤❤❤
Poor bat, but you did what you had to for her.
😔🍁🦇🇨🇦 thank you for sharing Meg
Poor Linti 😢😢😢😢
Shes sure is calm with you handling her. Hate to her she's not a keeper.
Once the adrenaline wears off they go flat and lose their mojo for a while, and are exhausted.
বাঃ!!!!!কি কিউট!!!! কি সুন্দর!!!!!! কি মিস্টি!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😊😊😊😊😊😊😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Rip Linti. 🦇 ♥
😰 oh nooooo.....💔
So sorry, Linti, and Meg. But so it goes. Wutherinng Heights is always sad.
I never read Wuthering Heights; in fact, I didn't read any of the set works except for the first one (The Day of the Triffids) in high school; the second set work was The Hobbit and I couldn't get into it; I read the first few pages of Jane Eyre and thought it was needlessly pompous as was Pride and Predjudice. So basically I didn't read any of them but listened in class what we were supposed to think and spewed it back in essays and exams; life is too short to read books you don't enjoy; I got first level high passes because I'm literate, not because I read any of the works.
That also went for all the Shakespeare plays too.
@@Megabattie your approach to Shakespeare might have worked better for me than my own. I made a prat of myself in an essay on romeo and juliet that my teacher decided to share with the whole class. 25 yrs on and it still occasionally gets dragged into the sunlight again by my "friends" lol. We had to read it, but then they let us watch the movie version (the newer one) as well. So i had both versions in my lil noggin when it came to essay time. I got confuddled and wrote "so he pulled out his sword and shot him".. sigh, shakespeare is not my thing lol
@bevakathedementedraccoon LOL - I promptly forgot everything about Shakespeare, the Bronte Sisters, Jane Austen and whomever wrote Jane Eyre. I never watched any of the movies of any of them, having had enough from the enforced study of the tedious works. I didn't avail myself of Shakespeare when I visited England.
I don't feel ignorant or uneducated - it just didn't appeal to me; I also don't like Jazz because it sounds too random to me. I love classical music (what I like I like, and I don't like Mahler who is my Mum's fave composer) and I select what I like according to if I like it. I love a lot of opera - I have NFI what they're all about but if I like the music I'm not interested in the ridiculous plot lines. I listen, I don't watch.
@@Megabattie I'm the same way. If i like something, i like it. I don't give a damn if anyone else likes it lol. n as someone school forced to go see all the shakespeare museums n plays etc here.. u TOTALLY made the right call to avoid them, boredom central lol.
I think as children and young adults you should be exposed to a variety of influences and genres, however you're entitled to not like things. Imagine a world where everyone liked all the same things (and I'm not talking about social media where everyone follows stupid influencers because their own lives have a paucity of enrichment).
I hated the Tolkien Classics and the English literature classics; that doesn't stop me reading every night, and doesn't stop me enjoying literature, just the literature I like reading.
I don't (in general) listen to the popular music but if I hear something I like, I buy the track and add it to my playlists; I'm quite eclectic.
My nephs are big in the Jazz scene in Sydney, but I really don't like jazz - it doesn't do it for me and about one set (accompanied by a glass of champagne) is about all I can tolerate before I need to retire my ears to something less intrusive. I love their passion but I find it hard going.
If I want to go to a museum, I do; if I don't, I don't. I pick and choose what I am bombarded with and try to isolate a particular thing rather than mass exposure.
Depressing.
Rip
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So sorry Linti, rest well. Elbow caps, who knew!!
Yes, who knew.
There's a video about the function of kneecaps (and elbow caps)!
th-cam.com/video/i3vVKgDgk68/w-d-xo.html
@@Megabattie thanx! The video was informative. I learned much about the patella due to an inflammatory arthritis that struck me at age 17. I wanted to be a surgeon.
@@lesal.1373 That's a bit of a bugger that you got arthritis when you were so young.
The whole reason for the patella is really interesting; one would expect that this also makes the bat's elbow more efficient and increases the power
@@Megabattie interesting how the tendon placement adds to muscle power. I'm not great with physics but sounds correct.
@@Megabattie bugger is right! Had to change my career and life goals. I did get to meet Prince, since I went into public relations and music management instead of med school.
Disappointing to hear, though sadly not unexpected based on the first video. At least she didn't suffer the misery of a slow death by dehydration or predation out there. 😢
I was so sad to hear Linti could never be released, I know we were all hopeful for her. She really was a lady with a gorgeous face. It took me years to repair a soft tissue injury to my left hip area, and I had torn a ligament…it still isn’t right. Linti got to me with her ups and downs. Fly free Linti…no more pain. If you run into Richard in the waiting room, please tell him love from me, but keep some for you as well, at least you had some quality time with our Meg. 🌹🖤🇨🇦
Yes, soft tissue injuries can be unfixable back to status quo ante, which makes it difficult for humans but a death sentence for the batties.
Even under anaesthetic (when feeling no pain) she had one wing obviously loose at the elbow; if it's loose then she's torn the ligaments.
@@Megabattie They can be ridiculous in healing time...I had a soft tissue injury on my left hip that took 8 years to resolve, I tore an attachment.🖤🇨🇦
umm, not sure I understand your entire comment; it's like you have half commented on my video and half commented on another video. Hall pottery?
@@Megabattie I mixed two responses into one reply…yesterday was weird, sorry Meg.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 I just sent you an email...
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