Day 1 Post Femoral Head Ostectomy (FHO) op! August 20th 2013

Day 2 Post Op

We were so excited to finally pick up our 2 year old cat Mo!  He has been so brave at the vet.  They put a new patch on him and we are instructed to take the patch off in 5 days.  We are to give him 4.5kg of an anti-inflammatory every day orally. It's a liquid with a syringe.  The vet tells us to let him exercise as much as he wants from the beginning.  We aren't instructed ANY physical therapy movements.  We are to schedule a post-op appointment 1 week later with our usual vet.

This picture is Mo RIGHT when we pick him up.  You can see his little wound that was glued shut (no stitches)  his face doesn't look like his usual fluffy happy self, but he has been through a lot.

We drive FOUR hours home right after his surgery (we live in the GTA and go to school in Ottawa), and Mo sleeps the whole way.  We get him home and he limps out of his crate.  He won't eat or drink at this point, but seems pain free.

I sleep on the couch to be closer to Mo all night, and he was able to jump up on the couch all by himself.  He slept at my feet all night, and even crawled and snuggled into my legs like he used to before surgery!

This is mo the night before, relaxing after we just got home. He always lay like this prior to injury, and looks pain free.