Genkai, or as I call her Kai, is two years old, and was spayed 8 days ago. She has developed Subcutaneous emphysema, a condition in which air has leaked under the layers of her skin causing her entire body to actually inflate like a balloon. Sounds funny, sounds cute...but it's terrifying. My normally 7lb cat looks as though she should weigh 30lbs!
She somehow ended up with a tear in her trachea (windpipe), so now when she takes a breath in, some of that breath leaks into her body, and under her skin. We think this may have been caused by the air tube when she was spayed last week, or possibly from a wasp she may have eaten the other day. It