Wednesday 21 August 2013

Day 2 of limping

Mo was still limping at this point.  He didn't seem any better and was still meowing and seemed in a ton of pain whenever he walked :(  We took him to our vet, where they say it looked broken but they couldn't do X-Rays so they told us to  take him to the emergency vet clinic.

Below is a video of Mo trying to walk the next day. As you can see he doesn't use his leg at all, it looks like he is lifting it up and trying not to walk on it at all.  


There, my boyfriend waited a couple hours and finally got him in & X-rayed, where they found out his femoral head was fractured.


 As you can see on the left, it looks like his femoral head isn't even attached to his hip.
So the vet suggested FHO, femoral head ostectomy, where they remove the fractured femoral head, and the cat creates his own PSEUDO joint by exercising etc.  We check him into boarding as he will have to wait 3 nights before he can get the surgery. He is given a Fentanyl patch for pain.  We wait until the following Tuesday, August 20th 2013, when can pick him up.  (His surgery was 5pm Monday August 19th 2013)







2 comments:

  1. Did the vet suggest how he ended up fracturing it? Like, how does that happen so randomly????

    Suzanne

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    1. The vet said it happens completely randomly! She said he may have been running around a corner too quickly or something else that wouldn't usually cause a cat to fracture his hip. It was already weak at the growth plates (probably because of genetics?) and then a small tweak can cause it to completely fracture.

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