Shamrock's ER Trip

So Mr. Shamrock gave us a huge scare last night. It was about 10:30pm last night and I heard him screaming. I ran downstairs to find him laying flat on his stomach not moving, just screaming. I have never seen a cat look like this so, Sam and I did what any good pet parents would do, and we rushed him to the Emergency Vet.

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By the time we got there he had stop screaming but was almost lifeless when we brought him in. The staff rushed him in the back to start working on him right away. I had to fill out some paperwork, and wait about 15 minutes before the vet came out and saw us.

This really didn't look good for Mr. Shamrock. The vet told us Shamrock had a type of "stroke" that cuts off the blood to his back legs (the real name is saddle thrombus -if you want learn more about it click here). When they brought us in the room to see him, they had him on oxygen and sedated. He looked so sad just laying there helpless.

The vet told us with something like this it just comes on very quick, without warning, and is the prognosis wasn't good. He gave us about a 50/50 shot of him living through the night. Let me tell you even though we only have had this cat for 40 days, this news broke our hearts. After some tears, we left him in the hands of the vet and went home to wait for the call no one wants to get.

Well- that call never came. Around 1:30am we called and we got some news that he was doing better. He was awake and alert. This news calmed us enough that we were able to go to sleep. By 7:00am when we pick him up he was up, walking, and ready to go home to claim his couch.

 

  
Other then the blue arm bandage, you would never had know he was on his death bed not 8 hours earlier. I feel so lucky that he pulled through, but I'm worried that we'll have to go through this again. So we hope to take him to a vet tomorrow to see what we can do to help prevent this from happening again (if that is possible).