The last 2 weeks have been bad. Real bad.
Billy was urinating on the cushions and we tried to find the reason unsuccessfully. He was eating alright and doing his businesses alright too. The Friday before last, 11 July 08, when I got home from work late, Billy ate much less than usual and seemed exhausted. I felt his stomach to check if poop was bothering him and found his bladder really large and large piece of poo still left in his tummy from my last check the night before. Then Billy moaned and went into the toilet and had bloody urine. I freaked.
Saturday, we rushed down for the earliest appointment at MPN as Dr P was fully booked at ARVC. The vet attending was Zill’s favourite Dr PF. She found that Billy had a Urinary Blockage and he had to have an operation to clear it and then he had to be hospitalised for 3 days. I agreed of course although the cost was totalled at around $700. I was really scared out of my wits and sms sis. When she called me, I was almost crying on the bus and couldn’t answer her properly so she resorted to sms. I went to the Ang Mo Kio Library and wandered around Ang Mo Kio Central so that I could calm down, think and plan.
Thankfully, when i went back to the clinic in the afternoon, Billy’s operation was a success. But he didn’t like it when I left without him when visiting hours were passed. Poor Boy. I visited him on Sunday and Monday as well. The naughty boy-cat pulled his E-collar and all the tubes out on the first night and cos the urine tube was sutured on, he had a really swollen penis, and couldn’t sit properly. He refused to eat, and only ate a little of his favourite steamed chicken drumstick which i brought to coax him to eat on Monday evening.
Luckily, Billy is well now and being fed water everyday. He needs to take a lot of water through syringe-feeding as he does not have the good habit of drinking water that the other cats have. Hence, the constipation and urine blockage.
Hopefully, with the water feeding, lactulose and the change of diet to W/D, he will not have constipation and urine problems again.
Posted in My Cats | Tags: Billy, constipation, urine blockage, sick