I have a rescue cat I came across last august. A handsome blue point Siamese with the most amazing personality. I spent 6 months nursing him back to health. I found him lying in the road after being hit by a car and left for dead. He and I have become best buddies. He exits the house during the day through my office window. I open and close it for him as he comes and goes. He often keeps me company by sitting on my desk as I type. In the evenings he plays with my yarn as I crochet. He sleeps in the curve of my back when I sleep on my stomach.
He has recovered well from all of his injuries but one. He tore his diaphragm and now there is pressure on his lungs that doesn't allow them to fully expand. He breaths in short rapid breaths. He seems perfectly happy despite this. He runs and climbs trees and plays just like all of the other cats. He just can't do it for as long. A cat can live a long healthy fairly normal life like this and just suffer from shortness of breath.
What I am faced with is should I have the surgery done to repair this and subject him to more pain and recovery time or leave him as he is since he seems to have adapted. I'm really really hesitant to have anything else done to him after all he has been through.
He has recovered well from all of his injuries but one. He tore his diaphragm and now there is pressure on his lungs that doesn't allow them to fully expand. He breaths in short rapid breaths. He seems perfectly happy despite this. He runs and climbs trees and plays just like all of the other cats. He just can't do it for as long. A cat can live a long healthy fairly normal life like this and just suffer from shortness of breath.
What I am faced with is should I have the surgery done to repair this and subject him to more pain and recovery time or leave him as he is since he seems to have adapted. I'm really really hesitant to have anything else done to him after all he has been through.