"Barking up the wrong tree"

Just a further note re: Annie, so don't read if kitty poop grosses you out!

Dr. Buchanan had felt hard stool in Annie's colon on Monday, so when we spoke yesterday evening she asked if Annie had passed anything. I said only a very tiny hard bit on Monday, nothing subsequent to that. So she felt we had been "barking up the wrong tree" with the Clavamox idea and that Annie likely was constipated. She hoped it was that. I didn't want to post an update last night or this morning, because the vet wasn't certain and I wouldn't be able to talk with her till this afternoon.

I would have thought that nothing would get through if that were the case, but she said anything that did make it around the blockage would come out as diarrhea. This would explain Annie's running to the litter box every few minutes and straining, but not having anything come out, then her two further bouts of diarrhea on Wednesday AM.

She must have been (and still be) feeling so uncomfortable.

So when Dr. Buchanan and I spoke this afternoon, she felt it definitely was constipation we were dealing with and that the Clavamox was a "red herring."

I'm worried she won't pass this on her own, of course. Very worried. Surgery always is a risk, especially for senior kitties with other health issues. And she's been through so much now. I just want her home, home, home, preferably tomorrow. I won't get my hopes up, though. The house is just not the same, I'm not the same.

Nicki, however, is in his glory with one less cat sharing the human. Derry is unsettled, not quite himself.

Let me tell you, my stress level was so high today that I felt like I could be a candidate for a heart attack or a stroke before this is all over. I was taking Passion Flower essence like crazy, without much success. Gravol tonight (brand name of an anti-nausea med that makes you sleepy).

I really don't think I could have kept it together (mostly...sort of) without everyone's support, so please know I thank you from the bottom of my heart. And I do humbly ask for continued purrs/prayers/healing energy for beloved Annie Bananie.

Thank you.