Pennycat's out of surgery.
Well an update on my cat, Penny. After we brought her home she just sat on her mat all night, wheezing slightly. James and I feared the worst. I took her to a vet clinic this morning and it just so happened that the vet who saw her yesterday works at this clinic as well. The price for the surgery was significantly less since it wasn't off hours/emergency: I was given a quote for $827 plus a discounted rate of $55 on xrays since she'd had some yesterday, plus the vet didn't charge extra for another office visit as she saw her yesterday. This was a much easier price to swallow and I signed for the vet to go ahead.
I just got a call back from the vet that they'd done the exploratory surgery and didn't find any more string. What they did find when they intubated her was a sewing needle lodged in her throat! Holy crap. Last time I used a needle was putting the button on the Jayne diaper cover; she must have gotten up into an area I thought she couldn't. Since they'd only done abdominal x-rays they never knew the needle was there!
The vet now thinks that the signs of last week's upper respiratory infection were actually due to having this needle in her. As well her abdominal x-rays showed gas/distension which the vet thought meant there was more string in there, but she now suspects Penny was simply swallowing air (again, due to the needle). I asked the vet why she seemed to be recovering (from the URI) on Friday and Saturday and she thinks it just had to do with where the needle was lodging itself, and told me of a cat who swallowed a needle last fall who had come-and-go symptoms.
Anyways, she should be coming home tomorrow assuming she starts to eat at the vets office.
I just got a call back from the vet that they'd done the exploratory surgery and didn't find any more string. What they did find when they intubated her was a sewing needle lodged in her throat! Holy crap. Last time I used a needle was putting the button on the Jayne diaper cover; she must have gotten up into an area I thought she couldn't. Since they'd only done abdominal x-rays they never knew the needle was there!
The vet now thinks that the signs of last week's upper respiratory infection were actually due to having this needle in her. As well her abdominal x-rays showed gas/distension which the vet thought meant there was more string in there, but she now suspects Penny was simply swallowing air (again, due to the needle). I asked the vet why she seemed to be recovering (from the URI) on Friday and Saturday and she thinks it just had to do with where the needle was lodging itself, and told me of a cat who swallowed a needle last fall who had come-and-go symptoms.
Anyways, she should be coming home tomorrow assuming she starts to eat at the vets office.