That's a tough place to be, when something's wrong and it looks complicated.

I hope the vet figures it out quickly!

Hopefully its just a temporary thing.

I have had furbabies stay overnight at the vets....I hated every minute of it.

are pretty wonderful

I will say some prayers for your stepdaughter's kitty. Hopefully since he is young he can recover completely from whatever damaged he sustained.

Away from the grandchild and any of the other cats. We did bring up the possiblity of abuse with the stepdaughter (son in law gets angry when Quark is being a adolescent shit and messes with "his stuff", swearing and swatting towards him occasionally - he's never actually hit Quark before, but...) , which she did think of when she found out what the vet said, but they had found him woozy and tangled up in the child's wooden chair by the kitchen, (which often gets knocked over by the other cats), so it's possible that one of the other cats just happened to ride the chair down on his skull when they jumped off the counter.

The vet couldn't find anything more without x-rays, but his final labs came in clean, and he doesn't seem to have had a stroke or seizure. She's pretty sure he got clonked on the head hard from what she could find, but there doesn't seem to be any swelling she can determine manually. The only other options might have been a siezure or a tumor, and again, she can't tell at this point in time without an x-ray. The kids have absolutely no money to spend for anything more, so they're just going to keep an eye on him and keep him sequestered until he's back to his old self or gets worse.

Thanks for the vibes, let's just hope it was just big old fat Pixel riding the chair down in the wrong direction and dropping the chair on his little brother's head while Quark was dozing. There's still some other issues (being "off" in the mornings), but hopefully, they can wait until we get a bit more money to have Quark checked out for tumors or other possible issues.

Haele