  Hi all. I am soooo far behind in my digests & e-mails right now. I thank everyone for their thoughts & prayers & help, & will eventually get back to everyone. Here's the info on what's wrong with my buddy:
  When they did the surgery the vet kept flushing his bladder & urethra with water to try & get the stone to come out, but nothing would happen. He couldn't figure out why nothing was coming out, so he had to close Albert up. They did another x-ray & the stone is still there, & actually had gotten bigger in just 5 days, NOT GOOD, so they decided to do a sonogram. The stone has actually formed in his ureter, & is lodged in there. He said there is no way to get a stone out of the ureter. He gave me Polycitra-K to try & dissolve the stone. He said if the stone gets bigger, or somehow becomes dislodged it could block the ureter & back up urine into his kidney. He says it's possible for a piggie to live with only 1 kidney, but I have given it alot of thought, & I will not put Albert thru anymore surgeries. When his quality of life starts to go downhill, or when I feel he tells me it's time, I will send him to the bridge peacefully. I want him to be with me forever, but will not sacrifice his happiness or put him thru pain just because I can't let go. Everything I have read & heard does not sound promising for the Polycitra-K to work. I thought about doing shilintong for him everyday, but don't know how that would react with the Polycitra, & I don't want to chance taking him off the Polycitra just in case it is working. I have been seeing alot about using the cornsilk, & would LOVE to try it, but no corn is available around here unless it's summer. By the time next summer rolls around, it will be too late. (sorry this is just a copy & paste thing, I'm so busy)
  So now another problem: Albert isn't at his sutures much anymore, but he is off his pellets. He will eat hay, chew biscuits, carrots, apples, basically anything but pellets. He has lost weight & seems depressed. I really wonder if I'm ding the right thing by making him endure all this. Maybe I'm just being selfish. I really could use some advice. Sorry this is so long. Thanks.
  


***JAIME***
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