Pip---Poorly Parrot!

My daughter Becki has a lovely little bird like our Jake---her name is Pip and she is 34 years old.I had a phone call from Becky on Thursday evening....Pip has been broody lately and had tryed to lay an egg--it appeared to be stuck 3/4 of the way out :-(  We went round to see if we could help...poor Pip was losing blood and waddling round with the egg dangling--it looked like there was a bit of membrane stopping it from coming out. One of my students is a vet in Wales--so she gave us some great advise -but it didn't work...so I was on phone to our vet at 7.30aam in morning and down there with Pip at 8.30am! Thee vet quickly removed the egg and explained that the membrane was in fact Pips Ovum-or 'womb'  and it had prolapsed.She put it back in and said it might stay in or not.So we kept an eye on her and it was back out by 11am.So back down the vets we go--this time the vet wouldn't put it back but advised us to take her to a proper avian vet as they have all the proper monitoring equipment to keep her safe while she had an operation to stitch it back in for her.So off we went to Telford with Pip in her travelling cage-she seemed quite happy-still  losing a lot of blood bless her.Anyway the vet was expecting her after our vet sent through all her file--and she went straight into have her op when we arrived.I was worried sick about her--but an hour later she came out -on her perch and looking great! The vet was really pleased with her-and hopefully she should be OK now. Pip didn't have a very good diet for 32 years--and that is the reason she has the trouble--she had a mainly sunflower seed diet which is really bad for them and she lacked calcium as well.Becky has had her on a much better diet for the 2 years she has had her but some damage has already been done.Their bones can become almost like glass if they don't have the right food and extra calcium..and Pips bones are weak..however fingers  crossed she wont have the problem again.She is back to normal today--on bottom of cage ripping up her newspaper and making a nice old mess for her mum and dad to clean up!