Today is Wednesday and we are waiting to hear about Jumper. I am so excited. He may get to come home this evening! I get a call from the vet right after lunch time. There is an issue! He can't pee when the catheter comes out. He goes back to the litter box and lays down. The vet says he isn't trying to pee, he just lays down in the litter box. I told her that is what he was doing at the house. She wants to put the catheter back in and the IV, but while she is doing that, do an ultrasound of his bladder. I told her I would have to talk to my husband. How much more is this going to add to his bill? Can it be fixed once you do this or are we just prolonging what we know will happen? If he can't pee, he can't live. We decide to let the vet do the ultrasound to see what is going on.
She calls back later and says he has many crystals in his bladder. That is what is clogging him up. She feels if she can scrape his bladder, get all of that out of there, he will have a much better chance. The way it is now, you take the catheter out, he can't pee. I talk with my husband; the vet sounds very optimistic; we decide to let her do it. The surgery is scheduled for Thursday morning.
I am still so worried about Jumper. I haven't seen him all week. I know he thinks we deserted him. He is such a great kitty and the house is so different without him here. He would follow us around, grab our hand with his paw to make us pet him. There is none of the that. The other cats don't act like him. He runs through the house sounding like a horse. You think this huge thing is bounding down the stairs, and it's just him, running through the house. I miss him so much! I wish he were back home and this was all over.
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