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Molly has been hit by a car, and needs an operation to plate some bones. I am setting this page up to ask for help from friends

  • Molly home!

      9 June 2017
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    Molly's home from her operation! She's had the operation on Tuesday and over here it's Friday evening now; so much for studying for my exam... :D

    Anyway I've just about taken the end of my finger off setting up this killer cage; but she's in, and I've put the heat pump to keep the room around 20 degrees celsius, I hope that's good enough for her. She's a bit bald...

    They set her fracture, and it seems it was her left pelvis, I had thought it was the right. So she wasn't lying on the broken side at the vet's the other day; she was lying on the not-broken side.

    I've seen her try to use her left leg to scratch but it just wobbles. I hope it works again. here she is in the rental cage from the vet!

    So far costs have been:

    My vet: $400.

    This operation $2425

    I still have 2 vet checkups, and paying for the crate to go. checkup 1 at my vet, checkup 2 at the surgery at six weeks.

    I have all manner of pills I am supposed to manage to get into her. That is the most terrifying thing for me right now. i have to keep her in a cage full time for six weeks, and feed her pills twice a day.

    Oh, and her sister ran away from her. After all that meowing, her flipping sister has run off outside and not come back in. After sicking up on my bed last night, on the feather duvet not the easy to wash blanket.

    But hey. My baby's home. Now for six weeks of crazy, and then it will be all over.

    PS it's too hard to put more than 1 pic here in the updates section. I'll put pics of molly in the gallery section. :)

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  • Visit to surgeon Tuesday 6 June

      6 June 2017
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    This evening, first working day of the week (Monday was Queen's Birthday weekend) I saw the surgeon. His name is David, and he put the x-rays up on screen again, and took me through the process of what would be done. She will have something called a 'string of pearls' which I visualise as a meccano piece with lots and lots of bolts. The bolts go into the bone, I guess they must be self-tapping. They hold the two slivers together.

    He explained that so many days after the event (it will be nearly a week on Wednesday) all her muscles will have tightened and it will be very difficult to get the pelvis back to where it belongs; but he should at least be able to make a good job of widening the pelvis enough for faeces to go through it. See the x-ray attached, for what has happened. The pelvis has snapped off and shunted up forwards into the actual pelvis area.

    He explained that the two bones, side by side as they are, would knit together and a big ball of bone would be created, encasing them. This big ball of bone would block most of the pelvic opening. So basically, had I chosen conservative care she would have been in for lifelong constipation, and a lifelong special diet, and lifelong complications that would involve lifelong care. He said the problem was that the pelvis generally would end up so small that when they needed to digitally investigate compacted colons (ick) for faeces they couldn't get their finger in the space because there isn't any; so what they end up doing is breaking the pelvis down the middle to try and make enough space.

    So for now: surgery in the morning, followed by a day on a drip, possibly home on Thursday which is when I will have to pay the bill. HAHAHAHA.

    gawd.

    xx to all. and thanks so much for the support I have already received. It's amazing. :)

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