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I took my cat Winston to VERG after I noticed he w...

I took my cat Winston to VERG after I noticed he was breathing more rapidly than usual with weird stomach movements. He's been dealing with an on-and-off mysterious GI issue for the past few months, but this was new. I wish I could remember everyone's name who helped me out, but we dropped him off around 11pm and (due to COVID we couldn't go in with him) got phone updates every step of the way until a treatment plan was decided.

He stayed overnight, then overnight again the following day, and now he's home! Not only was the initial issue treated (turns out he was having stomach motility issues that caused fluid to build up in there...made it tough for room to breathe) they really did everything they could to try to determine his broader issues. I guess it's fairly common for cats to present with symptoms that are either IBD or small cell lymphoma, with no real way outside of biopsy to tell for sure. Anyway, we got nice, frequent updates throughout his stay there, everyone was SO nice and extremely informative (I never thought I'd know this much about cat organs), really above and beyond. They sent me home with a detailed, explicit treatment plan as well as a writeup of everything they did and how he responded, on top of general information about his possible condition.

I'm blessed to not really know the "standard procedure" of an emergency visit like this, but I really felt like this was the best experience I could possibly have for my situation, and I'm grateful to everyone on the team here for keeping Winston comfortable and happy.

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