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The vet called and said Flapper is stable for now, and strong. They think what I am seeing is that he’s in a lot of pain. They looked in his vent and his cloaca is almost completely closed off from scar tissue. The opening should be about the size of a nickel maybe, but Flapper’s is so small he can’t pass waste and his digestion isn’t working right.

They want to try stretching it every week for awhile to see if they can enlarge it without surgery, which is just likely to cause more scar tissue anyway. So for now he is on antibiotics and pain medication and he can come home tonight. His blood work won’t be back ’til Tuesday, so we’ll know then how his kidneys are doing and how his other blood chemistry is, and whether or not he has an infection.

They don’t think he looks as bad as I do, as far as being lethargic and not moving. So what I’m seeing is probably his pain. Apparently he has been biting them with great force.

And that is a good sign.

We’ll know more Tuesday, and then we’ll try to see if we can keep him comfortable and out of pain for the long term.