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Hi hissy,
I'm not sure if you've been following the mythie thread, but i was wondering if you could help me out with how her recovery seems to be turning out...
The vet did the skin graft on wednesday.
Since then one side of the wound is healing well, while the other side has gotten an infection. The vet says this is largely due to fecal content as the wound is so near the anus. Now, what i'm concerned about is that today one of the stitches burst, and there was a lot of puss etc.
So the vet released a couple more stitches in that area of the wound and inserted some gauze... to absorb the oozey stuff... they're going to change this twice a day and she's on antibiotic shots...
What gets to me is that... it doesn't seem that we are any farther off from where we started. what i mean by saying this is that, she had tissue necrosis to begin with, and after the skin graft etc, we are still dealing with infected tissue...
I worry that she has ben on anti bios for so long, and i'm also worried that as soon as she comes off it, what's to stop the infection from coming back?
I don't know... I mean there's only so much i can hound my vet before human natyre starts to take it's toll and he gets annoyed. I'm beginning to think that he should have just let the wound heal in stead of doing the skin graft.
She has been stitched up, all the way along the join between hind legs and tummy... and now she has just where the hind legs end and her genitals begin got a large wedge of gauze inserted under the skin...
Somehow, it just doesn't seem right... It doesn't seem right that she is constantly oozing serum either. I don't see how she is supposed to heal when the wound is constantly wet.
Other factors such as her being at the vet for a month... constantly being poked and prodded and uncomfortable... I don't know how much more of this she can take? She's only just a kitten still. We're planning on starting to bring her home for a few hours everyday, just so she's not SO alone, and plus it'll be easier to re-introduce the cats again.
Do you have any experience with this sort of thing? Are there any questions i should be asking the vet? Will she pull through this i sometimes wonder... What happens if the wound just refuses to heal? Can that happen? I just wish we could see the light at the end of tunnel... If you think of anything, please let me know. I'm really at my wits end about this. I feel utterly helpless...
Yzma
[This message turned out to be too long to PM so i posted it here]
Hi hissy,
I'm not sure if you've been following the mythie thread, but i was wondering if you could help me out with how her recovery seems to be turning out...
The vet did the skin graft on wednesday.
Since then one side of the wound is healing well, while the other side has gotten an infection. The vet says this is largely due to fecal content as the wound is so near the anus. Now, what i'm concerned about is that today one of the stitches burst, and there was a lot of puss etc.
So the vet released a couple more stitches in that area of the wound and inserted some gauze... to absorb the oozey stuff... they're going to change this twice a day and she's on antibiotic shots...
What gets to me is that... it doesn't seem that we are any farther off from where we started. what i mean by saying this is that, she had tissue necrosis to begin with, and after the skin graft etc, we are still dealing with infected tissue...
I worry that she has ben on anti bios for so long, and i'm also worried that as soon as she comes off it, what's to stop the infection from coming back?
I don't know... I mean there's only so much i can hound my vet before human natyre starts to take it's toll and he gets annoyed. I'm beginning to think that he should have just let the wound heal in stead of doing the skin graft.
She has been stitched up, all the way along the join between hind legs and tummy... and now she has just where the hind legs end and her genitals begin got a large wedge of gauze inserted under the skin...
Somehow, it just doesn't seem right... It doesn't seem right that she is constantly oozing serum either. I don't see how she is supposed to heal when the wound is constantly wet.
Other factors such as her being at the vet for a month... constantly being poked and prodded and uncomfortable... I don't know how much more of this she can take? She's only just a kitten still. We're planning on starting to bring her home for a few hours everyday, just so she's not SO alone, and plus it'll be easier to re-introduce the cats again.
Do you have any experience with this sort of thing? Are there any questions i should be asking the vet? Will she pull through this i sometimes wonder... What happens if the wound just refuses to heal? Can that happen? I just wish we could see the light at the end of tunnel... If you think of anything, please let me know. I'm really at my wits end about this. I feel utterly helpless...
Yzma