Well, Tiger and I left the house at 5:30 yesterday morning and my other cat Jimmy looked so worried. He saw me pack Tiger up in his carrier and I think Jimmy thought that I was taking Tiger to the same place that I took Charlie and that he wouldn't be coming back. I tried to explain that this was our last hope for Tiger but Jimmy wasn't convinced!
We caught a ferry (just a short ferry ride) and then drove for a few hours and then caught a float plane (which was very loud for Tiger but he seemed to handle pretty well) and then caught a taxi and arrived at the vet by 9:00a.m. He told me he was going to have another look in his throat with the endoscopy and then his nose but I asked him to really focus on his nasal area because I was sure this was where the problem was. I asked him if he ever watched that tv show about the doctor called HOUSE (the guy that figures out all the weird medical mysteries) and he said that he had. I told him that he was my HOUSE and that after 4 other vets I was sure he was going to be the one who finally figure this mystery out for us.
A few hours later I went back to see how things had gone and the vet told me that they had immediately found either a polyp or a mass inside his nasal passage and had removed it. They will find out exactly what it is when the results from the lab come back in a week or two. I'm praying it is not cancer but in the meantime, I'm so thankful for his new and improved condition. The vet said that he thought Tiger sounded much better upon waking up from the surgery but wanted me to listen for myself. I walked over to the cage that he was recovering in and he was silent. No wheezing!!! He spent the next couple of hours there before our flight home and I couldn't help but notice how bright eyed he was in his cage as we drove the last couple of hours home. Despite being groggy from the anesthesia, he looked good. Oxygen makes all the difference! I can't imagine how awful it's been for him these past 7 weeks struggling to get oxygen and not being able to get full breaths.
When we got home around 11:00p.m. last night, I opened his cage door and Jimmy ran right up to him and sniffed Tiger's nose and face for a minute and then with what seemed like complete and utter joy, raced around like a madman playing with toys, flying up and down our two steps in our bedroom and going ballistic on the cat tree. I haven't seen Jimmy act this way since before Charlie died. Tiger also started attacking the tree and even played for a moment with his favourite stuffed caterpillar toy! We're all pretty happy! Thank you to everybody on this wonderful forum for your help and support. Mary, a very special thank you to you for your personal story about your cat Yodie that you PM'd to me. That in combination with the pet psychic's reading is really is what motivated me to book the appointment that I hope will ultimately give Tiger his life back. Thank you so much!
p.s. here are two youtube videos of Tiger taken this morning. He was still a little groggy today but I think the painpatch meds have worn off and he is feeling some of the effects of the surgery now. He's doing well though. Here are the videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vpo21qgw8w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhteV--gAJQ
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I was so worried!
I have one, too, and that makes all the difference in the world. I'm so happy for you and Tiger. Now you can have some peace. And so can Charlie.
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