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its only been slightly over a day since we took kayla to the vet and i can't believe how empty the apartment feels...
she's coming back tomorrow but still.
in short, if you don't plan on breeding your pets (mostly dogs and cats), please get them fixed.
kayla had to have emergency surgery because she developed pyometra in her uterus.
if we hadn't thought that she had been fixed before we got her (like the shelter had told us), we would have taken care of that years ago.
now i really don't want to go into what pyometra is, but it is scary...it can be fatal, thank god we took kayla to the vet in time.
so she had the surgery this morning, everything went fine. she was down to 6.1 lbs yesterday(skin n bones really) and dehydrated. she was too unstable to have the surgery done last night so overnight she was pumped full of fluids thru an IV.
apparently everything went ok, no complications, and her uterus, as expected, was "hugely filled with puss". so they removed it and all her other girly parts. tonight she's at the vet, staying overnight for observation. if all goes as planned, we'll be picking her up tomorrow.
she's coming back tomorrow but still.
in short, if you don't plan on breeding your pets (mostly dogs and cats), please get them fixed.
kayla had to have emergency surgery because she developed pyometra in her uterus.
if we hadn't thought that she had been fixed before we got her (like the shelter had told us), we would have taken care of that years ago.
now i really don't want to go into what pyometra is, but it is scary...it can be fatal, thank god we took kayla to the vet in time.
so she had the surgery this morning, everything went fine. she was down to 6.1 lbs yesterday(skin n bones really) and dehydrated. she was too unstable to have the surgery done last night so overnight she was pumped full of fluids thru an IV.
apparently everything went ok, no complications, and her uterus, as expected, was "hugely filled with puss". so they removed it and all her other girly parts. tonight she's at the vet, staying overnight for observation. if all goes as planned, we'll be picking her up tomorrow.