Sasha is having bladder surgery this morning. The vet thinks that he is full of unidentified cystine stones. Stones too large to be rinsed with a catheter. Numerous stones. Radiolucent stones. He diagnosed them with ultrasound. He said he shook him up and his bladder looked like a snow globe.
He is going to open his bladder and clean him out. Once they have a sample of the stones they will identify them and set up a diet to prevent a recurrence. He said that although this is a rare case, he has performed this same surgery as recently as last friday. He said the perineal urethrostomy surgery, previously proposed, had only a 50/50 chance to be sufficient enough to void the larger stones. The cat he did last Friday had stones up to 1/8 inch in diameter.
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He is going to open his bladder and clean him out. Once they have a sample of the stones they will identify them and set up a diet to prevent a recurrence. He said that although this is a rare case, he has performed this same surgery as recently as last friday. He said the perineal urethrostomy surgery, previously proposed, had only a 50/50 chance to be sufficient enough to void the larger stones. The cat he did last Friday had stones up to 1/8 inch in diameter.
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She was also a little constipated (I think dehydrated from winter dry weather), so I've been adding a little pumpkin and quite a bit of warm water to her wet meals, and she seems to be overall much better - so far doing well with larger pees as well. Thank goodness I don't need to worry (as much) about a potential blockage because she's female. 
