Apollo is very sick. <\/p>\n
This past week he has seemed to be slowing down, less energetic, but on Saturday morning I woke up to find that he had thrown up on the kitchen floor, and was extremely lethargic. We took him to the vet, who thought it might have been due to an antibiotic he was taking for a foot infection, so we switched antibiotics and took him back home.<\/p>\n
Today he seemed even worse. He couldn’t keep even a swallow of water down for more than a few minutes, and could barely stand. So this evening we took him in to a 24-hour emergency pet hospital. His temperature was 105 (normal is about 102). They did x-rays and blood analysis. The x-rays showed that his stomach was distended and filled with fluid, but his intestines looked normal. The x-rays didn’t show anything else clearly, but the symptoms are consistent with some kind of blockage, preventing food from exiting the stomach. Maybe he swallowed something that is blocking the passage from the stomach to the small intestine.<\/p>\n
They kept him overnight and in the morning they will do an ultrasound, which will often show blockages better than x-rays. If they find something, it may mean (hopefully) an endoscopic procedure to remove the blocking item, or worst case surgery.<\/p>\n
If they don’t find anything, then it’s a puzzle why he is so sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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