Pyxie Swollen/Bloated Trauma - Pictures

[tiffers]

So, this is going to sound crazy...but hear me out.

Sometime during Thursday night, my pyxie, who has been appropriately named Eureka (5mth old female), escaped her cage. (The screen has been taped onto the lid until we could fix it over the weekend.) Friday morning, I realized the screen on top had fallen again, so I taped it back up and went to work. She's usually hidden in the mornings; I didn't think anything of it.

Friday evening, I started vacuuming. It wasn't working...like, no sucking power whatsoever. I think you can see where this is going. After a good 10 minutes of what I assume was absolute horror while I tried to clear the clog in the tube, as I did not know I had a frog in my vacuum...I realized that there is a frog jammed in the tube.

Once she was freed, we rushed her off to an exotics vet that I know on emergency. She had to have already been in the tube, as the vacuum was picked up and carried and she never fell out, nor was she hiding under it. She must have escaped and climbed inside for shelter.

Once at the vet, we got her on heat support and saline fluid soaks (for shock therapy). She has no wounds, but is SEVERELY swollen. For instance, she floats to the top of her water dish when you set her in for the saline soaks.

As her body temperature returned to normal, some of the swelling/bloating dissipated. It is definitely air in her body, but we are unsure if we should aspirate it or not to release the pressure. She did not eat last night, and usually she eats anything that doesn't eat her first, being a pyxie and all. She did have a pretty traumatic day yesterday, so I don't necessarily blame her.

I've also attached some pictures.

Picture 1, minutes after being freed. She couldn't move any limbs, and when we rinsed her to free her from the vacuum cleaner debris, I felt that she was already dead.


Picture 2, getting 'heat support' at the vet. She has blood in her left eye, but it has been absorbing back into her body. It's almost gone now.


Picture 3, this morning. The air inside is not as 'hard', but she is definitely still VERY puffy.


Does anyone have experience with this sort of stress response? She is calm. Breathes fine. Nothing is broken. She walks around like normal; she just isn't eating. We were going to start her on pain meds if she wasn't eating, but those can be risky, so we're trying to exhaust all our efforts.

Ideas?

Her normal size, appearance -
A week ago: https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.n...24350936_n.jpg
The day she was purchased, about two-three weeks ago: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...68789811_n.jpg