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Prays for Midnight* First Vet Visit Purse String Comes Out Today.
Ok...so where to begin. This morning as many of you know is the biggest shopping day and well I was joining my sister, brother, and mom to go out and I was set to meet them at 6 a.m.
I was getting ready to get going and I sent a message to my sister just to make sure everyone was on time and she told me that we need to talk so of course I called her and she said we'll talk later and I didn't think anything of it. So once I got to the store I found my sister and she told me that my parent's cat Midnight had something sticking out of her butt.
I asked her what it was and she said she wasn't sure but she was guessing three things: tumor, hemorrhoids, or her intestines.
I don’t really like to say this but you guys are just like my family so I figured you guys would understand. My father lost his job about a month or so ago and well it hasn’t been a good time at all for my mother. She has a lot of medical problems of her own so for my father to have lost his job when she was going to have surgery on her knee next year (her knee needs replaced) just has put a huge amount of stress on her and well he finally did find another job but it’s going to take a while for his first check to come in. He also had to take a pay cut but a check is better than no check. Yes he could sign up but got denied.
So needless to say she didn’t have the money to take Midnight to the vets which she should know I would help her out but I know it’s not been a great time for my husband and I either but we manage. I wrecked my car last Saturday and right now it’s not drivable but I’m going to be getting it fixed with some help from my insurance but I have to pay my $500 deductable.
Ok back to Midnight, so once my sister told me that I knew I needed to go over and check on her to see what’s up and what this thing looks like. My mom didn’t want my sister to tell me because she knows I already have a huge vet bill to finish paying off.
I finally got over to my mom’s place around 6:30 a.m. and Midnight’s butt was very red but nothing was hanging out which to be honest I was really glad. I called the vets to make sure they were going to be open on Friday and they were thank God. I waited around till about 8:30 a.m. and called the vets and they had an appointment at 2:30 p.m.
So since we had her scheduled and everything was back in, I felt that it was okay if we went to a few shops and then came back home to check on her. Well it was a little after 12 and we came in and her thing was sticking out again. Immediately I called the vets and told them that it was sticking out again.
They told me to bring her in right away. So I did but they were working on 2 other emergency cases before Midnight’s and she cried the whole way there….I’ve never heard a cat scream and I mean scream.
Finally after waiting about 45 minutes the vet came in and she took Midnight out of the cat carrier and saw it and said it’s Rectal Prolapse and she has to have surgery tonight.
I didn’t really expect to hear that at all but I knew it was a possibility. I also took noticed that before she weighed Midnight that she acciendently peed and some blood was in it but we thought that was from her rectum bleeding some.
The vet told me that she would give me a call later that evening and let me know how she made out from surgery.
At about 5 p.m. the vet called and said that Midnight was just about waking up now and she was doing fine. The vet also said that during surgery Midnight peed a little bit more on the table and they saw blood in her urine and they took a sample of it and ran a test on it and found out that one of her levels were 1,000 and it was supposed to be 0.
The vet said she wanted to make sure Midnight wasn’t diabetic so she ran another test and that came back fine as well as some other blood work. They did an x-ray on her and found a bladder stone. A pretty big size one from what the vet said which is why she developed this rectal prolapse.
She said if we didn’t do the bladder surgery she will have another rectal prolapse. I agreed for her to go ahead and do this second surgery on her. The vet said she is going to try to get Midnight into surgery tomorrow as long as she doesn't have any other emergency cases come in but if she does she will do the surgery on Midnight on Monday.
I have no idea what the cost of the surgery’s or her blood work are going to be but I’m going to start researching some places to help possibly if not I’ll work out something with the vets.
My mom is on disability right now due to her shoulder and knee issues. I’m just asking for everyone to say a huge pray for Midnight and if you don’t mind throwing in one for my mom that would be great.
Thank you all so much for listening to me,
Melissa
