March 17, 2020
The vet finally called yesterday around 6pm. Thor’s pH was 8 which means it’s high enough that there is a chance that a change in his diet can help him pass the stones himself (closer to 6.5 or below and he would have needed surgery right away). So no surgery for now, yay! What a relief! We will try the new food for a month and then new x-rays. But of course we will have to keep a close eye on him and if he starts to have problems doing his business then we need to take him to the emergency for surgery right away cause that probably would mean that a stone is stuck. Poor baby, he doesn’t even know he has them. He is acting normal and doesn’t seem to be in any pain which is great, but we noticed when we took him on longer walks this weekend that he struggled a bit in the end. My guess is that it’s like a uti, he think he has to pee but nothing comes out and that probably hurts. No more blood though so that’s good. So for now we will have to keep his walks shorter which he won’t be happy about. We are taking everything fun away from him – no running on our slippery floors at home, no running up n down the stairs, no long walks and no interactions with people. But he’ll get over it…hopefully:)
Our vet told us that they wouldn’t be able to get that kind of food he now needs until maybe the end of this week or possibly next week because people have been hoarding pet food. So after speaking to the vet our search began to find a place that had it in stock. Luckily PetSmart in Stamford had it so we took Thor there and picked some cans up. The floor was so slippery there though (makes no sense why a pet store would have such slippery floor) so I couldn’t put T down to walk around and he was not a happy camper. But once he saw that daddy had picked out a new toy for him he was back to happy again. He was squeaking the heck out of that toy all the way home in the car hahaha.