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Thanks for all of the great suggestions and responses. Fingers still crossed. She is more than a day out of the surgery now and still not recovering the way my vet had hoped, even though the mass is now out of there. She is still completely lethargic and not eating. He decided to let me bring her home today, hoping that just letting her sit at home now undisturbed and left stress free will help her pull out of this and start eating.
He did say that he had managed to finally get her to take a tiny bit of the Hill's Prescription A/D off a Q-tip so he thought that was the start of *something*, at least. I warmed a little bit of skinless rotisserie chicken, which she loves and she still showed no interest in it however. He said that the fact that she is resting calmly at her favorite spot looking over the patio is a good sign however.
If she doesn't pull out of this though, there are not many options left. He said he's had 3 other vets look at her as well and none of them had any other ideas about what could be wrong with her. He said the only other next step would be to take her to the specialty vet practice in our area. That's many thousands of dollars more than I can afford however so that's why he has been going to truly heroic measures to try and save her for me.
I've made peace with the fact that I still may lose her and it's looking more and more like the original vet wasn't far off the mark. He had just cut to the chase right away.
He did say that he had managed to finally get her to take a tiny bit of the Hill's Prescription A/D off a Q-tip so he thought that was the start of *something*, at least. I warmed a little bit of skinless rotisserie chicken, which she loves and she still showed no interest in it however. He said that the fact that she is resting calmly at her favorite spot looking over the patio is a good sign however.
If she doesn't pull out of this though, there are not many options left. He said he's had 3 other vets look at her as well and none of them had any other ideas about what could be wrong with her. He said the only other next step would be to take her to the specialty vet practice in our area. That's many thousands of dollars more than I can afford however so that's why he has been going to truly heroic measures to try and save her for me.
I've made peace with the fact that I still may lose her and it's looking more and more like the original vet wasn't far off the mark. He had just cut to the chase right away.