it's been nearly a month since Sophie went to the vet with unproductive vomiting.
We started with the emergency vet. Then we had an appointment the next week with our regular vet after the emergency vet charged us $850 just to say it was hairballs and give us a tube of kitty laxative
Our regular vet said, probably hairballs, but they were willing to do an X-ray. Sophie had a mass inside her stomach. So our vet sent us to a surgical vet uptown. Our vet can do surgery, but all the openings were taken.
So the surgical vet did an ultrasound and found masses in the stomach and upper intestine. Hair bands? Yarn? String? No, massive hairballs. The blood tests and biopsies came back fine. $5000 later spread over 3 credit cards (Care Credit maxed), the diagnosis is IBD possibly caused by food allergies.
Now Sophie is on prescription dry food which she hates that costs $75 for an 8 pound bag, and an oral steroid which she also hates every day for $54. It's every 2 months, but, dear heavens, we can't afford that. So I bargained with the vet, and she said in a couple months I could try switching Sophie over to Iams Sensitive Stomach and Skin, which is only about $18 for a 7 pound bag. Let's hope we can do that.
Sophie is doing well now. We are stone broke. We can afford food, water, and shelter and that's about it currently.
Oh, and the car was stolen Saturday night. Insurance took care of everything but a $250 deductible, which is the same as the battery we had to replace the day Sophie started vomiting.
We get the car back in a couple weeks. No groceries until then. Mom can get to work with Uber or the bus. Me, I'm just going to have to walk everywhere.
If anyone has any good ramen recipes, this is a good time for them
