Lots of news!!!

So Vera is wonderful! Thank you to everyone who was thinking of us. Someone was listening!

So Vera had surgery to remove the mass in her abdomen last Friday. They removed 2/3 of her liver, her gallbladder, and a huge 1 1/2 pound tumor. The doctor gave it a 98% chance of being cancerous, but our little girl was in the 2%!! It was benign!!

Well, Vera was sent home last Sunday and was just not acting herself. We watched her carefully, and on Monday night, she was burning up with fever and had turned yellow. She was rushed back into the vet as an emergency and re-admitted to ICU. They did tests and started her on medications. She had an infection and a type of hepititis that is caused by liver trauma (not by a disease). She was also refusing to eat so they put a tube down her nose (she LOVED that!).

By Friday, she was meowing, trying to jump and run away from the nurses, and being an all around pain in the butt...in other words, time for her to come home! She was released Saturday morning. She is still on 3 medications (I am getting really good at prying her mouth open and squirting the medicine down her throat), but she is doing very well. She is not quite as active as she was before, but we understand that she has been through a lot in the last 2 weeks.

Thanks again to everyone for all the thoughts!