Foreign Body Procedure

[Brigitte Cowell]

Per, thanks for the reply!

We caught it VERY early. He had no dead tissue that needed to be removed, he actually still had stool in his intestine so it wasn't blocked long.

He has been much better this morning, which is day 3 of being home. He was very vocal at the vet so they were afraid to get near him (ha!). We got him home and he was super lovey and very excited to be home.

I think he may have just needed to relax after being away as he he is acting much more normal today.

We have an appointment on Wednesday or Thursday to get the cone taken off. He hates the cone.....

Thanks!

So glad that he is doing well, seems that he is well on his way to recovery! Whew!

 

[Patti]

Great to hear he is perking up! I've heard of other cats that took three days after anesthesia to get back to their usual selves so glad he is following suit...

 

[Mrs.CC]

Glad to hear he's doing much better! Did you find out what it was that he ingested?

 

[ambiente18]

Vomiting, unable to keep anything down, the vomit tends to
Smell like poop. xrays with a barium swallow will usually show blockage. Very serious.
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tank you Trish for you answer. I will know. Thank you

 

[Tigitodwitz]

tank you Trish for you answer. I will know. Thank you

My Isabis too had to have a foreign object removed. However, she was eating normally, not throwing up, and pooping just fine so I had no idea until I came home from work one day. She was doing a weird stomach breathing thing. It's kind of hard to describe. It looked like as if her stomach had lungs and were breathing heavily. Her actual lungs were not doing the moving it was her stomach. So she did this for hours and it was alarming to look at, and she was a lot calmer than usual. She became very affectionate towards me and wanted to sit in my lap which was also unusual, so I took her into the emergency vet around 4 am. They did an X-ray and saw the quarter sized round mysterious object in her stomach. The vet said it had been in there for a while. So LUCKILY it didn't turn out to be a life threatening situation, so I took her to my vet and scheduled a surgery a few days later. It turned out to be a soft, rubbery object the shape and size of a quarter. I still have no idea where she got it from!

 

[Brigitte Cowell]

I'm glad Isabis made it through that, it sounds very scary and I'm so glad it was found before anything worse happened!

 

[Tigitodwitz]

Thanks me too! We were lucky it wasn't blocking anything. She definitely can be a handful. She reminds me of a two year old child that has to explore objects with her mouth. Thankfully her older sister isn't like this.

 

[Tigitodwitz]

Oh and it also took her until the third day to come back around 100% after surgery.