Madison wants nothing to do with anybody
Madison wants nothing to do with anybody, originally uploaded by benjaminhigginbotham.
Madison is done at the U of M for now. They did some tests and have found that she may need surgery. For now they are going to try a much less invasive procedure.
The current theory that Madison's vagina is not tight enough which is allowing bacteria in. While it's easy to crack jokes at this point, the reality of it is that this is very serious. Doing some quick Mahalo searches revealed a couple pages talking about Feline Urinary Syndrome or FUS. The symptoms seem to fit but the doctors are unsure right now. The theories they have won't be proven until the cultures come back. It could be one thing, it could be multiple things (they are looking for kidney stones too) they simply don't know. She has been sick long enough for us to know that something is really not right.Hopefully the doctors are on the right track and she will be OK. We're running out of options. This is the same cat that jumped off our 9th story balcony and survived (which is apparently so common that the vets have it as a separate category in their system.) She's a fighter and while she hates going in for any work (as seen in the above picture) she won't just let a silly infection get to her.You know I must love this cat very much as her total medical bills are now well over $10,000 (most of that was for her 9 story fall). I may be crazy, but I refuse to give up. She is one of my all time favorite cats and as long as she won't give up, neither will we.More updates as Cariann gets them to me, but I have a feeling that this is about all we'll have for today. Need some time for the test results to come back.