FRAIDY SADIE AND THE NEEDLE

As many of you already know, Fraidy Sadie consumed a sewing needle with a long piece of knotted thread on the Sunday preceding Labor Day. Of course, no regular VET was open so we had to take her to the Emergency VET Hospital. I knew for sure that she ate it. I saw her eating it. A small part was still sticking out of her mouth. We got into quite an argument with me trying to retrieve the needle before she could swallow it and she gobbled it down. So, I knew it was down there. There was not choice. I had to take her to the VET or we would have found her dead the next day.

So they X Rayed her in the hopes that it was not in her tummy. But no, I was right. She swallowed it and it was in her tummy. See pictures. They cut her open and were able to remove it without cutting her stomach. Basically, they located it by "feel" and worked it string and all out through the stomach. It would have been so very much worse if they had been forced to open the stomach itself and remove the needle. For your viewing pleasure, I've attached some pictures of Sadie before the surgery, Sadie wearing her "cone of shame", X Rays, etc.

The surgeon returned the needle and thread to us in a medicine bottle with a child proof cap in hopes that we could keep her from eating it again.

Eric keeps walking around the house saying "This is a cat we can't get to take a pill and she eats a f...c..ing needle"