[Tallulah Bee]

I hope your vet also took a stool sample to check for parasites.

When Tallulah came home, she was frighteningly small (barely a pound) and she had frequent fainting spells and fits of hypoglycemia. Her symptoms were similar to your scenario. Our vet told us she probably had a heart defect and wouldn't live very long without surgery and close monitoring.

Only after weeks of feeding her sugar water from a dropper, fingerfuls of wet food, and giving her nutrical twice a day (a pretty aggressive, full-time regimen) did our vet ask for a stool sample. She was found to have coccidia, which is a parasite that kills if not treated right away (as many do).

I think it's an important thing to rule out before surgery, but if it's already been done and confirmed (I didn't read the whole thread), then you move forward, obviously.

We don't see that vet anymore. He was extremely inattentive and his misstep with the stool sample was just too much for us.