Boaz Update!

Well I was so busy today that I didn't even get home until 9:30 tonight. When I got home Boaz was laying in the bathroom and I couldn't really even get him to stand up. So I called the Animal Emergency Clinic and took him in. The vet finally came in to see me about 11 and said that he has a blockage in his urinary tract so his bladder his pretty much stretched to the max and that toxins are building up in his body. His temperature was 97 which is 3 to 5 degrees below where a cat normally runs. So needless to say, he is at the emergency clinic all night, they are running tests and putting in a catheter. I have to go pick him up before 7 in the morning and then take him to his regular vet to be monitored all day. I must love my kitties alot cause it is costing me 600 at the emergency clinic and then I will have to pay for him to be at the vet tomorrow too. Thank goodness I work in the summer!!

I just got a call and the vet said that she was amazed at how well he looked on the physical exam because his tests came back pretty bad. They got the catheter to go in but all the urine being drained out looked pretty much like pure blood. Some number in his blood test that is normally supposed to be around 30 was over 140 and the test only goes to 140. And his potassium level which should be a 4 was 8.6 and they said that at 7 it could actually stop their heart. So they gave him some drugs to help bring that down and have given him something else to protect his heart. She said that he is resting comfortably and they will be watching him closely all night. She said to be prepared for him to have to stay at the vets for a few days as they watch for all the levels to come back to normal and I will probably have to have him on an even more specific diet and figure out how to keep him out of Ruth's food from now on so this doesn't happen again.