Oct. 18th, 2007

kistha: (Free Tayet)
This morning I was awoken by the frighteningly familiar Tayet warning behavior. He was acting like he always did when he got blocked by bladder stones. We had to have a surgery done so that he was physically a girl, hoping that the stones would pass (as they usually do in girls) rather than block, since after three surgeries to remove the stones - the risk of not recovering is very high.

After rushing him to the ER, his bladder is too small to tell if it's a stone, or get a sample and find out if it's a bladder infection (something I hadn't even thought of, usually a girl problem) or if it is indeed a stone. So he's staying there until they can get the bladder full, and take a sample and do an ultrasound to look for a stone.

Here's what we're hoping for, and hoping that you'll all send us good thoughts for too:

1. An easily remedied bladder infection.
2. A stone small enough they can um, "manually" pass it down the tube.

If we go to another Sx, I'll update and I'll be asking for prayers that he survives, and heals.

Vet Called

Oct. 18th, 2007 03:02 pm
kistha: (Free Tayet)
So. It's not just one stone - it's multiples.

They are just on the edge of too big (and multiples) to go for the "manual" option*.

They're going to try using a probe and claw under ultrasound and pull them out, since they should fit through the opening. If this is unsuccessful, they will go to Sx. We'll get the call one way or the other later this evening.

Assuming all goes well, and he recovers, the new plan (since he just won't be normal, damn it) will be to go in every six months for an ultrasound and if there are any small stones at the time, they'll do the "manual" option.

I am very scared, but the vet hasn't brought up any gloom and doom on the recovery end, so that's definitely a good thing. Here's hoping. Any good thoughts anyone can send would be helpful.


*This involves basically filling the bladder with water via catheter, putting kitty out then manually squeezing all of the water out of the bladder at once (flaccid muscles help here) rushing the stones out.
kistha: (Free Tayet)
So.

They put Tayet under anesthesia to discover that the pu site healed constricted, meaning it is actually smaller than the natural opening would normally have been.

Basically the surgery did nothing, in fact it was worse. So, we do it again.

*bangsheadagainstwalltillbloody*

The ER will hold him until Tuesday (or Monday if there are no ER Sx that day) and then they will re-do the pu, with the probe/claw stone removal added. The surgeon will give me a call Monday to talk about the various risks, scar tissue complications, and so on. We could have brought him home, but the risk is more than I'm comfortable with, plus if he blocks while he's there, they'll call the surgeon in and it might get done earlier.

The on call doc has been great, and said that Tayet certainly found the right parents. Yep, that would be us.

And, on a hilarity note (the kind right before hysteria and the psychotic break) this would be the three month mark of "time for something horrific and/or financially breaking" to occur.

Well. Good to know we're still on target.


PS - So glad I kept the chicken coop.
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