Figured out I don't need to wait another 2 - 3 weeks to do another update since it's the start of Raya hols! Yey!



Time for another photo post!

This is Coco, one of my critical cases that tortured me during my surgical rotation.

But the torture is for good reason. And gives out good results in the end. She was having this non-healing wound at the flank (side) region after being spayed from the side. It's one of those rare surgical cases that can go wrong. This pic was taken about 3 weeks before today, all painful and not in the mood.

Her wound was horrible, giving out this curdled cheesy pus that almost looked like corn soup. I rather not put up the pic here, or else your screen will be splattered with puke. She was so down that she wouldn't let anyone dragging her out of the cage.

She reacted so badly to the wound, got septic that an emergency surgery had to be done on a SUNDAY! Her situation was touch and go throughout the recovery period, that people started being very pessimistic about her surviving this.

But she was a tough gal.

Managed to tolerate even how many times we have to clean and bandage the wound, how many injections we had to give since some drugs cannot be given on an empty stomach with the fact that she's not eating and losing weight very fast that we had to force feed her (wow, that's a mouthful), giving fluids and doing blood transfusion when she became horribly anemic, doing warm compresses to reduce the swelling, not doing her usual grooming stuff that we had to groom for her, difficulty in breathing that fluids have to be sucked out from her chest since that is the culprit distrupting her from breathing normally.

And in the end...

This is her, 3 weeks later, though thinner, but still very much alive.

And happily meowing when people called out her name, accidentally sneeze or say "hachiu-ooo!".

Though she hates one of my classmate who was assigned this case after me. And bit + punctured her finger. Yikes...

And her wound looks beautifully neat and clean compared to the time when I was given this case, make you wanna go... wow... It's all worth it in the end.

And she went back home this morning.

Haii.....Sedihnya... No one to say hachiu-oo to and get a reply...

And yes.

I dyed my hair red. SO WHAT?!?

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There's this trend in the small animal wards about animals in the critical unit surviving what they had.

Those in the beginning you think have a good progress and can go home, in the end ended up dead or being euthanized when they took a turn for the worse.

Those in the beginning look unpromising and expecting to die within a night or two, actually survived and could go back home in the end.

Farni hor?