Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Minnie Update.

So as we know, Minnie's big day was today.  A couple days before her surgery, I was instructed by the vet to administer Clindamycin (Dr. Ganda's favorite!) twice a day for two and half days.  That cat may seem small and sweet, but she is strong and does NOT have a taste for medicine.  My solo struggles in squirting 1mL of Clinda down my cat's throat was sorta funny to me, so I thought I'd record one of my efforts for all to see.  

Anyway.  So I dropped Minnie off this morning, and then an hour and a half later, I get a call from the vet. I panicked because I wasn't supposed to pick her up until 3:30, and it was only 10:00, and I had signed a little thing on the release form saying that if something went wrong, I wanted them to call me ASAP.  So I freaked.  Then the nice hippie vet doctor man informed me that my dear Minnie's teeth were all barely hanging on by a thread.  We're talking loosey goosey, kind of just chilling on the alveolar crest, waiting for a good moment to jump into the back of Minnie's throat.  And they were sore.  Really sore.  So sore, when she was under general anesthesia, if you touched any of her teeth, they would automatically chatter.  Since she was in such bad shape, all of her teeth but the canines had been extracted.

My POOR baby.  So I cried and said thank you to the doctor man, and waitied patiently for the next five and a half hours to go by so I could go get her already.

When I finally went to pick her up, she was awake and seemed okay.  The vet gave me some before and after pictures, we had a little chat, and they sent us on our merry way.

Minnie's mouth right before surgery

Minnie's mouth post-surgery.


And in case you really love Minnie... This is her after her surgery.  What a relief!!


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