So, I was away for one night when I got a call that my father broke his leg, naturally I rushed home, and when I got here I noticed my cat seemed a little puny, he'd vomited and looked off, but nothing terrible. It was Sunday night so I decided to watch him until the morning, but I just had a bad feeling, I kept waking up to make sure he was breathing. It didn't make sense to me though, I thought I was probably overreacting, because how could me sweet, spunky little boy be his normal self on Saturday and be near death on Sunday, but he was, I just didn't know it. When I woke up Monday morning I just knew something was terribly wrong. He wouldn't even stand up. I rushed him to the vet to discover he had a urethral blockage. Seriously?! I've had other cats and I've never heard of this before now. hno:
My vet removed the blockage, and left him on an IV overnight, while he was there being looked after, I started to look up information about obstructions like this.:surf:
So my cat didn't have a stone. He was plugged up with mucus and cells and his urine was too alkaline.
Right now he's still pretty poorly. He's laying beside me on a low heating pad sleeping. He's lost tone in his bladder and the vet keeps having to express his urine manually, but there is no new blockage yet. (Luckily the vet is literally three houses away) The vet wanted him to come home because he said Squeaker was abnormally depressed. I completely believe that, he's never spent a night out of my house and he's not used to not being with me.
He's not really eating or drinking yet, and I know he's not out of the woods. He's getting subcutaneous fluids when I take him to the vet two or three times a day to have his urine expressed, and get antibiotics and other medicine, I can't bear to hear his pitiful painful meowing, I feel so bad for him. It astonishes me how fast he went from being himself to being so sick. If my dad hadn't broken his leg, I wouldn't have been home for another day and Squeakers would probably have been dead!
So I want to get some planning for aftercare, advice from others who have gone through the same thing, because Squeakers is going to pull though! He can't not!
I want to do everything I can so that this NEVER happens to him again.
What worked for your cats that have had this type of blockage?
My vet removed the blockage, and left him on an IV overnight, while he was there being looked after, I started to look up information about obstructions like this.:surf:
So my cat didn't have a stone. He was plugged up with mucus and cells and his urine was too alkaline.
Right now he's still pretty poorly. He's laying beside me on a low heating pad sleeping. He's lost tone in his bladder and the vet keeps having to express his urine manually, but there is no new blockage yet. (Luckily the vet is literally three houses away) The vet wanted him to come home because he said Squeaker was abnormally depressed. I completely believe that, he's never spent a night out of my house and he's not used to not being with me.
He's not really eating or drinking yet, and I know he's not out of the woods. He's getting subcutaneous fluids when I take him to the vet two or three times a day to have his urine expressed, and get antibiotics and other medicine, I can't bear to hear his pitiful painful meowing, I feel so bad for him. It astonishes me how fast he went from being himself to being so sick. If my dad hadn't broken his leg, I wouldn't have been home for another day and Squeakers would probably have been dead!
So I want to get some planning for aftercare, advice from others who have gone through the same thing, because Squeakers is going to pull though! He can't not!
I want to do everything I can so that this NEVER happens to him again.
What worked for your cats that have had this type of blockage?
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