Warp's appointment went well and she's had a big long set of x-rays.
She's having enough trouble that she was rehydrated with sub-q as well as
x-rayed.  Had been expecting with the rapid weight loss, the difficulty
with food, the need for vertical eating posture, etc.  that it would
possibly be megaesophagus, or that she had torn again in her small
intestines form her autoimmmune thing, but it appears to be something much
easier (the same thing it wasn't when her intestines tore): she's just
developing an ulcer.  She did the easy and safer option for once!  She's
on helicobacter meds, and may have to have another added later.  First
we'll go with her three standards and vertical feeding for three days to
give it a chance to heal a bit, then we'll try horizontal eating again with
her.  If she refluxes with that then she will have another med that will
help on that score, too.  Very, very good news; it's a happy time here
right now.  (Guess with this, the operation Joe Martins recently did for
her at the Basking Ridge Animal Hospital (N.J.) --multiple surgeries for
adrenal and for torn small intestine, she's run about $1,100 in the last
month or two.  It happens.  She's worth it.)
[Posted in FML issue 3070]