23/11/2024
Welp. There’s been a setback. Thursday evening when I went to check in and spend time with Opal I noticed she was favouring her left hind leg. It was the same leg she favoured prior to surgery and wouldn’t put weight down on it. About an hour later she was running away from herself growling and hissing. She had been doing so well, we had done all her courses of pain meds and she was being sustained on gabapentin. She was trying to break herself out of her room, she did not want to be confined. We were amazed and optimistic.
I gave her an additional pain med Thursday night and hoped a good night sleep would do her good. Unfortunately on Friday, she showed no improvement. Thankfully the VSCAN was able to see us, and she appears to be very painful around her sacrum. Not at the surgical site, not at her hip, but something is happening from her sacrum down to her toes that is making her left leg very painful again. It’s a puzzle for sure, because the area of concern was to be her right hind leg, just due to the screw placement being in the spinal column.
Before doing additional images, the doctors want to check if we do have the right antibiotic. So a urine sample has been taken to do a culture, as the bladder is the source of the infection. It’s been almost a month since she’s been on antibiotics, so there should be SOME movement in that area, but she’s not progressing, she’s regressing. The only reason we didn’t do it before, was because I know my cat’s history like the back of my hand and the last 3 times we did a culture & sensitivity, she had e.coli just hanging out in her bladder.
For the weekend she’s back on metacam, and tramadol and you can see in these pics is high as a kite. Purring, but far less mobile, fingers crossed that we find some answers, that we can hopefully do something about.
I’m really worried, and trying to focus on what is in front of me, versus spiral into what possible futures may come. 🩷🐾
