Gizmo is Home

After one surgery, four days in the Kitty Hospital, and 12 nights at the veterinarian's, Gizmo the Cat is home.
I have received plenty of advice from well-meaning friends about how to avoid hairballs in the future. This wasn't a normal hairball, by any veterinarian's measure (including my brother in law). This was the size of a woman's fist and it was well-lodged in her intestines, and I need to be very clear that Gizmo has a different kitty system which doesn't handle hair the way "normal" kitty systems should. Other long-haired cats typically throw up hairballs; Gizmo does not. For whatever reason, the hair stays in her system. Also, Gizmo has developed allergic skin disease, which causes her to pull out her hair and she swallows that hair, too, and she is unable to rid her system of that extra hair.
Needless to say, we have a lot of pet bills ahead of us. Thanks for your thoughts and love.