Save Summer: A Kitten's Fight with Rare Complication

Summer is a happy, active 6-month-old kitten. Unfortunately, she suffered from a rare surgical complication. Her colon closed off after her spay surgery. Your donation will help with her ongoing medication and colon ballooning procedures. Greatly appreciate you click on the YouTube link and read the detailed story below.

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Dear Friends,

I'm Julie. I grew up with cats. Always had cats throughout my entire life. As many of you know, I added another addition to the family this summer. It was a coincidence. A friend's Mama Cat had a litter of four. I took one of them that looks just like my older cat Snoopy. Because she was born in the summer, I just named her Summer.

She was a cute, active, super smart little being. She climbs to every shelf, plays with all the mouse, fish, bird toys she got, plucked out all the succulent I had :D. Surprisingly, she can fetch! She spent a lot of her time with Grandpa. Summer has brought Grandpa immense joy. They play fetch together, snuggle together, watch TV together, and of course, Summer plays and chases her big brother Snoopy.

On December 17th, we took 5-month old Summer to a regular Spay Surgery. Who would have known, slowly we discovered Summer had not pooped since. Slowly, she started to vomit everything she eats, food and water. On December 31st, we took her back to the vet, which just diagnosed her as having constipation and performed enema. No improvement have we seen afterwards, she continued not being able to hold down food and became more and more quiet. She doesn't eat anymore, let alone playing. She lost 20% of her own weight. We took her to another vet for a second opinion, in which she performed two enemas with no improvement either. We took her to an animal hospital ER afterwards, where the vet performed a manual procedure of manually removing her feces. She told us that she felt a stricture (a narrowing of the pathway) in her colon, which explained why she hasn't pooped ever since. We were advised to take her to yet another animal hospital to perform more diagnostic exams. We did, and Summer was hospitalized there.

We have never been so worried ever. Summer is only a 6-month old baby and has been through so much hardship already. We can't remember how many times she has been sedated. After discussing with many different kinds of vets, they finally made a diagnosis - Summer developed an extremely rare surgical complication that after the spay surgery, her colon has closed off. Normally, the average diameter of a cat's colon is 20+ mm, Summer's narrowest point was under 2mm.

Not only are we worried about Summer's health, the financial burden is shocking to us as well. Every vet visit is at least 2k. So far we have already spent 14k. I just learnt that Summer's insurance has a cap of 7.5k annually.

Good news is after the Vet performed a ballooning procedure, Summer is able to poop liquid poop with the aid of lax medication. The Vet was able to open up her colon to 7mm. The procedure has its risk of colon rupture, so they have to do it very gently for multiple times. The vet said Summer needs 3-4 more ballooning procedures.

Each procedure costs 3k+. We are not sure what the future holds and if Summer can ever come back to be an active, cheerful cat as she used to be. She is just a kitten and has the whole future ahead of her.

We kindly ask if you could help. Every dollar counts. Greatly appreciate your kind heart. Summer wants to live. She wants to play with her big brother Snoopy and Grandpa again.