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After my previous question, during my writing test mom called the vet, made an appointment, we took her in and the vet took her weight, temperature, checked her out by feeling her puffyness, and she went and took an empty needle syringe, put it under her skin, tried pulling whatever is in out, all she found was air under her skin.
The vet told us that the only way she coulda gotten air under her skin is if her lungs got punctured somehow?
Or if there was some sort of wound and the wound is allowing air under her skin but not out.
We have to pay $189 as it is, for the vet visit and an X-ray.
The X-ray is about $150 alone.
They also called asking if we can pay $60 more to sedate her because she won’t let the vets X-ray her.
I think they’re charging too much and we don’t have the money for the $60 so mom said no and the nurse that called said she’d figure out something she can do without sedating her.
What do you think is wrong with our precious Rayne…?
She’s an INDOOR cat, and so are the other 5, and the other 5 are acting normal, just, worried about Rayne.
We’ve lived with cats all our life and we’ve never seen anything like this.
The vet said it was bizzare.
Problem – we’re in Cali.
NOBODY will lower the bill of anything.
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Also, we have bunk beds but all our cats jump down from the top of them ALL THE TIME.
The vet explained that there must’ve been an outer wound letting air under her skin, or something must’ve hurt her lungs somehow.
If she fought with one of the other kitties to hurt her THAT bad we would’ve heard it! Besides, we ALWAYS break up our cats fighting as soon as they start.
The vet stated it might be Emphysema?
I can’t find absolutely anything on Google about it.
What’s emphysema and how do you FIX it!?
And what causes it?
Could she have gotten whatever she has from another cat in the kennel after getting her fixed a few days ago?
Dances with Woofs!: Hehe, your username is cute.
Well, we would’ve noticed that too! We always keep a very good eye on our cats.
We have 2 sister cats, 4 years old, one had the other 4 kittens, and Rayne is the oldest of the kittens.
The kittens are about…9-10 months old and we always keep a very good eye on them.
She was acting like she was in pain, in my opinion, and MISERABLE.
She didn’t like moving much and she spent all night up on my bed last night, on a red blanket.
I got an hour and a half of sleep because I was keeping an eye on her.
She was breathing kinda heavy last night and her sister Phantom was licking her head and laying next to her.
Layla -her mother- was yelling at my mom to take her to the vet, and since they know what the vet is, since they all recently got fixed, Rayne was walking up to the vet box cause she wanted us to help her.
Layla’s sister Taloose is like a nanny, and was yelling all night last night cause she knew something was wrong.
Also, kicked her? Nooo, never, the only one that lives here that would kick her would be my older brother and he only shoves the cats away with his foot when they were in heat and following him around, and he hasn’t been here in 2 days, and this happened just last night – he wasn’t here at all!
Besides, he wouldn’t kick her hard enough to cause this, not at all.
None of us are abusive in any way to our kitties.
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Mom just called the vet, the vet is gonna drain the air, keep her overnight and see if she puffs up again in the morning and if she does she’ll drain it again.
She took 2 X-rays, one didn’t turn out too well, so they’re gonna take another but she says it looks like something in her throat/trachea area was torn.
She said it isn’t external so it couldn’t have been from a fight or from being bitten by something.
She’s not gonna charge us for the draining or keeping her overnight or the extra X-ray.
That was nice of her too ^-^
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They kept her 2 nights so far and were draining the air, she ate some food n drank some water and the vet said she’s doing fine and hasn’t filled back up with air.
They gave her a blanket and she curled up in it and hid :3
If she doesn’t fill up again with air tomorrow, the vet said we can come n pick her up.
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just cat is just old
January 23rd, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Try to talk to the vet , or clinic owner, to lower the bill, sometimes this works. $60 to sedate her is ridiculous! It sounds like the prices ARE too high. You have the right to pay the bill and take her to a cheaper vet, you can call around and find out if any local vets are willing to help. If I had to guess, I would say either she had a fight with one of your other cants ( was there any pus at all?) or she fell. The vet should be able to help her. Good Luck!
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January 23rd, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I saw your question last night and a collapsed lung was all that I could think of,but since you said that your cats are indoor cats,I thought that would be unlikely.But maybe she fell and hit her chest on something and you didn’t see? Could someone have kicked her? It is very odd,and I hope the cat recovers.Keep us posted,would you?
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January 23rd, 2010 at 8:45 pm
just cat is just old
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