Well Mizzou went back to the vet yesterday, she just didn’t seem right after all her earlier probings. They took X-rays of her chest and abdomen. The chest X-rays came back good, so no pneumonia, but the abdominal X-rays showed gas filled large and small intestines. Which is not good, and could potentially mean there is a blockage (i.e. foreign body) in her intestines. But the X-rays weren’t definitive about it, so she stayed the night at the animal hospital, in the ICU so her vital signs could be monitored, in case she took a turn for the worse.

Then this morning she was fed some Barium, and had another set of X-rays, to watch the progression of the Barium through her system. Turns out the Barium made it just fine through her system, so she has no blockage, yay! So we got to go pick her up this evening, and now we are just monitoring her to see if in the next 24-48 hours she gets back to her “normal” self (like cats are normal…).

The Vet thinks the GI upset could have been caused by the antibiotics (which were stopped yesterday when her chest X-ray came back normal). So potentially that’s what caused it, or it could be that she is a small kitty and they did stick an endoscope down her throat and into her stomach, which could have lead to the GI issues as well. We will not know, and hopefully she will be back to normal in no time!

Interesting fact we found out about her, from her X-rays. One of her kidneys is smaller than the other! The vet said its no big deal since one of them is normal sized, so we shouldn’t ever have problems with it, just a genetic goof that our kitty has!

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