Daisy's gone under the knife today. I think her surgery is finished already, though we haven't gotten an update since about 1:30.

It turns out that one her several kidney stones got lodged in a ureter (the tubes that runs from the kidneys to the bladder). This meant that only one of her damaged kidneys was doing the work of two and it just couldn't keep up. Going heavy on fluids and diuretics wasn't able to force her to pass the stone, leaving only the options of surgery or ultrasonic.

The nurses and doctors at the NC State vet school became so attached to Daisy that they went to the surgeons and begged them to contribute teaching dollars towards her surgery, which is the only way we'd be able to do this. I'm so grateful that they did and now we're waiting to hear another update. Last we heard they'd removed most of the stones in the kidney itself and flushed out the pus that had built up in there from the previous infection. They were about to go after the stone in the ureter, which is a complicated procedure