Thanks so much to everyone who responded to my plea for help two days ago with my Yatzi who was grinding her teeth and not eating. I learned something - never post in hysteria, because you're going to leave something important out (as if there's any other way to post when your little girl is so sick!) I didn't mention four important things: (1) she was already diagnosed with insulinoma last year and in fact had surgery in November to remove some nodules from her pancreas, along with both of her enlarged adrenals (thanks, Dr. Steininger!) and she had been on pred prior - no episodes since then (2) her stools are tarry and black (I didn't even realize that I had notice this and I always inspect her poop - that info would have really helped my vet!) (3) her dad and I separated 4 months ago and she moved to a new home with me (-----> stress), and (4) she went on a lick-a-thon after her hair started growing back in again 2 months ago Oh yeah, and she's at least 5 years old (not sure exactly) For anyone else who might be experiencing anything at all similar, I went in the awesome FML archives AFTER I posted (sorry!) and found out about gastric ulcers and hairballs inside the stomach. So Dr. G decided to lube her up and treat her for a possible ulcer with meds and hope to God it's not a hairball, given her age and recent major surgery. Again, I'm so sorry to waste everyone's time with such a vague complaint, but thanks for listening :-) Major breakthrough today was licking water off my hands on her own after 4 days of the dropper and two whole spoonfuls of duck soup! Thanks, Em [Posted in FML issue 3341]