Erik is home...
Jun. 16th, 2008 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellio...and the vet at the clinic has no explanation for what happened.
They put him on IV fluids and hit him with injected antibiotics (which I understand to be more potent), and he started eating. This morning they said he had eaten "a little"; this afternoon it was "quite a bit" (though they didn't quantify any of this and I didn't think to ask). To my surprise, the vet did not propose exploratory surgery (and attack on the gallstone while in the neighborhood); rather, she suggested sending him home and following up with my regular vet in a week. My vet, in turn, has a surgeon she'll want to have consult. And I'll want to know an awful lot more than I currently know about the probable and possible effects of the surgery on him, short- and long-term. The last one was pretty rough on him but was overwhelmingly successful; I can't assume another surgery would be like that.
I know that in people they can use some sonic doo-hickey to break up kidney stones sometimes, but my vet is unaware of such things for cats at all or for gallstones.
I have a copy of the results from yesterday's blood test and the technicians' log of everything they did to him while he was there. When I got home I called my vet and read her parts of it, and she's confused too. They are supposed to fax her a copy (and if they don't I can). I have an appointment with her for next Monday.
Everyone I spoke with at AVETS described Erik as "very affectionate". Good boy. :-)
Thanks to everyone for the good wishes yesterday and today.
They put him on IV fluids and hit him with injected antibiotics (which I understand to be more potent), and he started eating. This morning they said he had eaten "a little"; this afternoon it was "quite a bit" (though they didn't quantify any of this and I didn't think to ask). To my surprise, the vet did not propose exploratory surgery (and attack on the gallstone while in the neighborhood); rather, she suggested sending him home and following up with my regular vet in a week. My vet, in turn, has a surgeon she'll want to have consult. And I'll want to know an awful lot more than I currently know about the probable and possible effects of the surgery on him, short- and long-term. The last one was pretty rough on him but was overwhelmingly successful; I can't assume another surgery would be like that.
I know that in people they can use some sonic doo-hickey to break up kidney stones sometimes, but my vet is unaware of such things for cats at all or for gallstones.
I have a copy of the results from yesterday's blood test and the technicians' log of everything they did to him while he was there. When I got home I called my vet and read her parts of it, and she's confused too. They are supposed to fax her a copy (and if they don't I can). I have an appointment with her for next Monday.
Everyone I spoke with at AVETS described Erik as "very affectionate". Good boy. :-)
Thanks to everyone for the good wishes yesterday and today.
Best Wishes
Date: 2008-06-17 10:57 pm (UTC)Cuddles, our 14 year/old lovebird, is doing poorly. We're hoping she's rallying, but avian medicine is decades behind feline and canine medicine. Not to mention that 40g isn't much to work with...
Re: Best Wishes
Date: 2008-06-18 12:57 am (UTC)