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Hi everyone, this is my first time posting. I’m going to be looking for a vet experienced with pu but I’ve seen two, the emergency vet who performed the surgery and my regular vet. Neither seem to know much about the possible post op complications and we weren’t sent home with any sort of instructions post op just to leave his cone on for 14 days and then have the stitches removed.. needless to say the experience was traumatizing not just for little Jack but also for my fiancé and I who worked full time jobs and had no clue what exactly this surgery meant and no matter how much research you do nothing prepares you for the surgical site when they first come home.
anyways, I’m just looking for some advice if anyone else has experienced this with their little one after pu surgery. For the most part Jack’s recovery has been standard, after not sleeping for two weeks to make sure his surgical site healed properly we had the stitches removed by our regular vet not the er vet (who I actually know very well due to my mom working with him for 25 years. So I was warned that they met have missed a stitch since there were so many) and life mostly returned to normal one additional stitch ended up working it’s way out a few weeks later but other than that nothing crazy has happened. We’re about two and a half months out now and I had to take him to my vet last Tuesday due to his surgical site being extremely red and inflamed. When I took him in the doctor called techs, other doctors and me to come look because the area was so swollen he couldn’t see a hole for Jack to pee out of. He gave him a shot of steroids and antibiotics but warned me that if the inflammation didn’t go down and he didn’t pee by the end of the day he would either need reconstructive surgery or we would have to consider putting him down. Fast forward to today, we decided to take Jack’s cone off because things appeared to be healing very well and my fiancé held him up in the light so I could get a good look at the area to determine if we could keep the cone off and I noticed that the pee hole is much lower than the doctor thought and the area that had actually been inflamed was at the top of the surgical site where stitches had been.
My questions is, has anyone seen this? If so was it related to a stitch that was missed when they removed the others? Was it a UTI? Did you cat just lick the surgical site raw? Or something completely different?
I appreciate any help at all while I look for a vet for a second opinion.
anyways, I’m just looking for some advice if anyone else has experienced this with their little one after pu surgery. For the most part Jack’s recovery has been standard, after not sleeping for two weeks to make sure his surgical site healed properly we had the stitches removed by our regular vet not the er vet (who I actually know very well due to my mom working with him for 25 years. So I was warned that they met have missed a stitch since there were so many) and life mostly returned to normal one additional stitch ended up working it’s way out a few weeks later but other than that nothing crazy has happened. We’re about two and a half months out now and I had to take him to my vet last Tuesday due to his surgical site being extremely red and inflamed. When I took him in the doctor called techs, other doctors and me to come look because the area was so swollen he couldn’t see a hole for Jack to pee out of. He gave him a shot of steroids and antibiotics but warned me that if the inflammation didn’t go down and he didn’t pee by the end of the day he would either need reconstructive surgery or we would have to consider putting him down. Fast forward to today, we decided to take Jack’s cone off because things appeared to be healing very well and my fiancé held him up in the light so I could get a good look at the area to determine if we could keep the cone off and I noticed that the pee hole is much lower than the doctor thought and the area that had actually been inflamed was at the top of the surgical site where stitches had been.
My questions is, has anyone seen this? If so was it related to a stitch that was missed when they removed the others? Was it a UTI? Did you cat just lick the surgical site raw? Or something completely different?
I appreciate any help at all while I look for a vet for a second opinion.