Hello Poo Watchers!! Just got back from the vets. All good news really, we saw the senior vet as well as Tai's vet, who had a jolly good feel of Tai's abdomen and reckons the blockage is working its way through slowly. Whether it is just faecal matter, or whether it is the plastic as well, we cannot tell without going in, and that is not an option because of his cardiac arrest. It is just a waiting game. We have discussed diet, and he has suggested giving Tai raw tripe mixed in with the cooked chicken 3 times a day - small amounts of course in each feed - and then after a week, introducing pureed raw veg - carrot - just take it very slowly, no bones of course, no raw carrots for now, not even pureed, just raw tripe and a little cooked chicken and rice. We have been given some more antacid medicine, but we are off the ab's now.

With a fair wind and a bit of luck, the old boy will make it I think and hope!!

We just need that first poo!! It will need Pickfords to take it away, but OH is all primed with carrier bags for pick up!!

Thanx everyone for your kind thoughts ... it's good news re my brother as well. He is out of theatre, will be in Queens Medical at Nottingham for a further week, and the surgeon deemed the op to be successful so hopefully that means they have removed the tumour. He is on pain killers and his daughter and son in law are going in to see him. I shall be going in over the weekend.

Fingers crossed for both my boys!!