Mexican Hash
I’ve heard of star athletes dislocating their knees. Never a cat.
We came home from lunch one day and found our little kitty, Tattoo with her leg held up and she was trembling.
I rushed her to the vet and they took xrays. She had dislocated her knee laterally, so that means it was sticking out on the outside of her leg. Uber painful. We have no idea how she did it. We just found her struggling to walk on 3 legs.
This happened two days after Christmas.
We had to wait until January 4 to get her into the specialist who could do surgery. That meant our New Year’s Eve was very quiet. I spent the time with a kitty on heavy pain meds sleeping in my lap while I watched a movie. No matter. I had planned a quiet holiday this year anyway.
January 4, it was confirmed that she needed a rather complicated surgery and that her recovery time would be long. We love our little furry babies and treat them like family, so this would be our priority.
Tattoo is a 14 year old kitty, so we worried about her pulling through surgery. Thing is the vets considered her the most spry 14 year old cat they’d ever seen. Tattoo pulled through with flying colors.
The recovery is the tough part...
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