[Dailydrool] Buford, OEBE Garbagemeister Extraordinaire--surgery tomorrow (Friday)

[Heidi I Sarver]

Things are not getting better and we may be facing the last option in  
assisting my boy in having a sense of a normal life. Tomorrow morning  
I take my baby to the Veterinary Specialty Center in Delaware where  
he will undergo some pretty invasive surgery. They are going to tack  
his stomach down (gastropexy), do a surgical exploratory, do an  
endoscopy and scope his esophagus as well as taking biopsies of his  
intestines. Here's why:

While the bloat symptom of filling with gas has remained under  
control he is still clearly experiencing bloating on a regular basis,  
meaning, after each meal. He paces, he licks the air, he  
hypersalivates, and he is very uncomfortable for 3-4 hours after  
breakfast and dinner. The suspicion is that his stomach has been  
doing a 90 degree twist most, if not all, of his life. And he is now  
at the point where it has become more and more difficult for his body  
to unflip his stomach back into a normal position.

**IF** this is indeed the problem (for there is no real way to prove  
the suspicion unless the internist was to catch an actual twist/flip  
on an xray) then tacking his stomach may just solve his digestive  
problems.  If this does not solve it....I can't even type the words.

--heidi, buford, della and guinness the cat