The current vets are good. They are an animal hospital, so she has several different doctors taking care of her, and the internist they called in for her case (because they were so puzzled) is supposedly one of the best in the area. He's the one who would do the endoscopy. And I saw the x-ray, so there is no doubting something is in the poor little girl's tummy.
BUT, there is news. They did a new x-ray this morning, and the "pebble" is no longer in her stomach! They think it has moved to her colon, but they can't tell for sure because she had barium yesterday and it is in her colon, too, making her entire colon show white on the x-ray. But they know she didn't vomit it up, so it seems it has finally made its way out of her stomach. Yay! The vet thinks there is a very good chance she'll pass it out the old fashioned way, so they are going to keep her hydrated and watch her for the next several hours, as well as try to get her to eat (so she'll have something to poo out besides a pebble!). In theory, as the pebble is no longer in her stomach, she should stop vomiting and become hungry.
Please keep your fingers crossed! Her pooing it out would be the absolute best case scenario!
__________________ Proud Mommy of Violet  |