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Good morning and Merry Christmas all.
Yesterday, our Claire-bear meowed very loudly and alarmingly before vomiting two times. A small pillow feather was expelled along with undigested dry food from her afternoon feeding, and we thought the end of the matter. However, she vomited another two times afterwards and also howled immediately before; that time it was just mucus/bile. She hadn't drank water all day, and stopped showing interest in food. Emergency vet trip resulted in: x-rays (negative), blood (negative), and sub-q fluids and one Cerenia shot. She was her normal self after returning home. She even waited by her food bowl, but we were advised by the attending vet not to feed her (I should've ignored this) until morning. This morning, no interest in food, and she isn't like herself.
I just checked her blood work documents from last night and her eosinophils level was marked at .03 K/uL out of .17 (lowest value) to 1.57 (highest value). I understand this decrease in white blood cell count is normally attributed to "stress." However, this very same "it's probably stress" discussion occurred with our last cat with a different cat-speciality vet, and it ended up being small cell lymphoma for which she died before diagnosis was even confirmed.
We have a pending ultrasound procedure with the emergency vet office later today.
Yesterday, our Claire-bear meowed very loudly and alarmingly before vomiting two times. A small pillow feather was expelled along with undigested dry food from her afternoon feeding, and we thought the end of the matter. However, she vomited another two times afterwards and also howled immediately before; that time it was just mucus/bile. She hadn't drank water all day, and stopped showing interest in food. Emergency vet trip resulted in: x-rays (negative), blood (negative), and sub-q fluids and one Cerenia shot. She was her normal self after returning home. She even waited by her food bowl, but we were advised by the attending vet not to feed her (I should've ignored this) until morning. This morning, no interest in food, and she isn't like herself.
I just checked her blood work documents from last night and her eosinophils level was marked at .03 K/uL out of .17 (lowest value) to 1.57 (highest value). I understand this decrease in white blood cell count is normally attributed to "stress." However, this very same "it's probably stress" discussion occurred with our last cat with a different cat-speciality vet, and it ended up being small cell lymphoma for which she died before diagnosis was even confirmed.
We have a pending ultrasound procedure with the emergency vet office later today.