And back to the vet again!!
Ah, so whilst Betty was traumatised by her op, to the extent that she didn’t even wash for 3 days, Boo was the opposite… so fine that she decided she didn’t need her stitches after three days, and pulled one out… ouch!
At first we thought it was not going to be too bad, however soon realised that removing that one stitch, 2 days early caused another stitch to pull open and she was running around with a hole in her belly. Ok she was actually quite happy and oblivious to this, but again not being the sharpest tool in the box, that didn’t really tell us much. She had probably not associated the pain with the fact that she kept licking her wound.
So… it was back to the vet once again and to our dismay, it meant putting her back under again, re-opening what was left of the wound and re-stitching it! Eek. Jilly was amazing watching the whole process and I thought I was doing pretty well until I started to feel a little hot around the collar… breaking out in a beady sweat. Thankfully I didn’t shame myself by actually keeling over, but I did feel a touch off-colour. Thankfully it was all over fairly quickly and we took our comatosed kitten back home to recover.
Two days later, she is now quite happy purring away laying beside me. However she did have to overcome the mortification and discomfort of wearing a sock over her body… which will remain there as long as she has stitches… she also went through great fun last night when we tried out a cone collar in the hope that we could then remove the sock. This really didn’t work as the thing was so heavy she had difficulty lifting her head enough to walk around and kept getting stuck with her head facing the floor… so we decided to stick with the sock. In comparison she was much happier with the latter.