Poor boy has had more problems. She took him in because he was moaning
and he seemed to be stopped up with hair. THey gave him and enema and I
guess he was Really full but that night he was very restless and meowed
and moaned all night so she took him back the next day (yesterday) and
they took an xray. There was gas and it was not moving at all. There
appeared to be an area of thickened intestine and maybe an obstruction.
They kept him and gave him another enema and laxative and subq's hoping
to move it along. In the morning xrays show no real change, so they
operated.

The vet tried to call my mom but her stupid cell phone isn't working
right and the home phone was busy. I had talked to the vet yesterday
because mom just has trouble taking everything in when she is upset.
Since she couldn't get my mom she called me. He came out of surgery OK,
but she found no obstruction. There is just no motility right now. She
squeezed out the trapped gas. She took biopsies of the intestine in two
places, biopsy of the stomach and of the liver. She is concerned the
liver was a bit off color, although the blood work didn't show anything
off with the liver enzymes. She did not find any masses or obvious cell
changing. She would still be concerned a bit about lymphoma. Right now,
she says she is inclined to think possible IBD or IBD complicated with
megacolon even though he is young for megacolon. Mostly I am writing
this here too so I can remember what to tell mom. They do have someone
there 24/7 so that is good. SHe will probably start pushing soft food a
bit early because she is concerned about that off color liver and
Hepatic Lipidosis. I just don't know what to think. Poor boy. It is
good that she got all those biopsies though. I don't think you can
usually get a good diagnosis without them. Of course, being a holiday
weekend the biopsies won't go out until Tuesday. Grrr. Why does this
stuff always happen around a holiday!!! Argh. It actually would have
been easier had she found an obstruction, that is for sure
But it is good she didn't get in there and see rampant cancer of some
kind. This is going to be VERY hard on my mom though.

She was frustrated the vet didn't get her. She is very upset. I tried
to explain what IBD and megacolon are, and she thinks it means he will
not have a quality life, but I tried to explain that is not so. And we
aren't sure yet what is up until we get the tests back. It's just all
so frustrating. Iknow she will have to force feed him and I am worried
about that. This is just so very depressing.