So, I got my second wisdom tooth removed yesterday and kind of look like a hamster currently and am in a decent amount of pain. This morning, the wound was also bleeding again after brushing my teeth, so I went into the medicine cabinet for some gauze to bite down on to stop the bleeding. I walked from the bathroom to the kitchen to throw away the wrapper and returned to my cat chewing on something. There was a tiny piece of plastic he was chewing, but I recalled that there was also a singular loose hair tie in the medicine cabinet. My first thought was therefore “what if he ate the hair tie”, so I went looking for the hair tie of course, I checked the cabinet thoroughly, like four times or so, no hair tie. Checked other places it could have been, twice. Still: no hair tie. So, off to the vet for an injection to make my cat vomit, to attempt to get the hair tie out, which did not work. An x-ray showed his stomach to still be quite full however, which could indicate some sort of obstruction (such as a hair tie!). So, off to a specialized vet, to check kitty’s stomach with a camera. I returned home, and was rather knackered by now (and in pain, as I had a wisdom tooth drilled out of my jaw the day before). When I got home I decided to check the cabinet one more time and lo and behold: there was the hair tie! Tried calling the vet to call off the expedition into kitty’s stomach, but no such luck, the vet was already finishing up and told me that my cat’s stomach was indeed empty. All of that for nothing!

TLDR: thought my cat had ingested a hair tie, induced vomiting at the vet, got x-rays taken and kitty’s stomach was checked with a camera by a specialized vet, only for me to come home and find the damn hair tie.