chalk mountain: our poor parker

oh my goodness it has been a very stressful, emotional last several days. our cat Parker, threw up on thurs night and since then she's thrown up over 30 times. she got very dehydrated, ate and drank nothing all that time, had to go to the ER vet twice and today had an emergency exploratory surgery. she will spend the next 2 nights at the vet's, hooked up to an IV for fluids. we have been on an emotional roller coaster. we had her blood drawn -normal, had X-rays taken - normal, were about to have an ultrasound procedure done but skipped to the exploratory b/c it seemed it'd give us more answers. when the vet called at 12:30, he said, "good news" we didn't find anything. they were looking for something lodged in her path, causing the vomiting. but saw nothing, they also don't think it's lymphoma (cancer in her intestines). they believe it's Inflamed bowel disease, which the steroid injection she received yesterday am, is supposed to help. she threw up 12 times though since she got it and the vet said she should also only throw up 2-3 times. before this she was on average throwing up 5-6 times per day. she also was given Ceriena (anti nausea) twice. the first time it held off her vomiting for nearly 24 hrs. the second time, it did nothing. she threw up twice as much as she had the previous days. it was just heartbreaking tending to her being SO miserable and so sick. Matt and i felt so bad for her. she did not know what was going on and was so uncomfortable. i am glad she is getting re hydrated, but sad cause she's there at the vet's all by herself the next two overnights. i hope she doesn't throw up cause she'll have no one to tend to her. and there has been really bad weather and thunder, so i hope she's not getting stressed by that. it'll be good to have her home on Friday. i will be tending to her by myself since Matt is away, but all i can pray for is that she stops throwing up. from there we'll have to do trial diets to discover what she is allergic to/what's inflaming her bowel. poor Parker, we love her so much and are so glad we didn't have to loose her as part of our family today. we were preparing for that decision, as hard as it was, b/c if the vet called and said it was lymphoma, nearly 100% of the time, owners decide not to wake back up, the pet, b/c the disease only tends to allow them to live 4-5 more months and they are miserable the whole time. we didn't want Parker to live uncomfortably. and we still don't so our prayer is for answers and solutions and for the vomiting to STOP! i can't wait to see her in the morning at the vets.