Asking for Prayers, Healing vines and vibes!

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Bobbie And Bubba said:
Today is the day I have been dreading. Bubba's right eye enucleation. Keep him in your best thoughts through this procedure and the healing process. I will post later how he did. Thanks in advance everyone!!!!:bighug::bighug:
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He will do awesome.cats are very adaptive.when miss kitty had both her eyes covered for 2weeks I was worried she would go into a depression but she did great!she remembered where everything was and even after a few days jumped up and down off couch!you have a tough little guy there.prayers
 
Bubba is back in the house, minus one eye, a bit aggravated (think I would be too). He doesn't look as bad as I expected he would. He is still quite out of it and hopefully he will be interested in eating in about 45 minutes so I can get some more pain med on board and his insulin. Thanks for all the kind wishes and I felt everyone's prayers and positive thoughts surrounding us today. From the bottom of my heart, y'all are the best!
 
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He's missing being outside. He wants to be inside the wood box in the living room. My heart....
 

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Bobbie, so glad to hear his surgery went well and he is back home! I'm sure he'll heal quickly and be prowling outside again soon. Hugs to you and scritches to Bubba. You are a great kitty Mom and Bubba and Forrest are lucky to have you! :bighug::bighug: :cat: :cat:
 
Bobbie
Double prayers for Bubba's quick recovery and the biopsy news to come OK.
I hope he ate and you were able to shoot and give him some pain meds, cause I know you are fretting.
Hugs :bighug::bighug: and super hopeful vines for both of you, a good night's rest.
I'll be thinking of you guys tonight.
 
My previous cat Sammy had that done and he did great. He still went out but he knew his limits and never left the garden. He didn't seem to need any adjustment time, and when I took him home the following day he was his usual self. Hope Bubba is too. Sending healing.
 
Sue484 said:
My previous cat Sammy had that done and he did great. He still went out but he knew his limits and never left the garden. He didn't seem to need any adjustment time, and when I took him home the following day he was his usual self. Hope Bubba is too. Sending healing.
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Thanks for sharing that. At this point, he is still quite not himself. He ate better today than last night and he just wants to hide in my bedroom but, that's because I won't let him down in the basement (his favorite place to be ) yet because of the stairs. Why did your cat need an eye removal?
 
Sammy needed his eye removed as he has high blood pressure as a secondary complaint to hypothyroidism. Unfortunately, it caused bleeding in the eye and his eye ruptured. I let Sammy do the stairs straight away if he wanted to. They are very resilient.
 
granadilla said:
Good that he ate better this morning. Each day he'll get better and better. When did the vet say he could do stairs? Continued healing vines coming your way!
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The vet never said anything about the stair; that was my notion with him so drunk like he shouldn't try them yet as they are opened stairs into the basement. I wanted to do without the buprenex but @ 2.25 his spiked up to 457 which indicated to me that he is in pain. The buprenex has him out of it. He is really so out of it and is just sleeping in my bedroom closet. Probably just as well because I can't get him to be calm when the cone of shame is on. He goes into wild cat spazz rubbing up against furniture and the walls trying to get it off so, I just decided to keep it off of him.
 
Sue484 said:
Sammy needed his eye removed as he has high blood pressure as a secondary complaint to hypothyroidism. Unfortunately, it caused bleeding in the eye and his eye ruptured. I let Sammy do the stairs straight away if he wanted to. They are very resilient.
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So sorry that you baby had to go through all the pain the rupture must have caused him.
 
Bobbie And Bubba said:
So sorry that you baby had to go through all the pain the rupture must have caused him.
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I hated the cone.miss kitty only wore hers a few hrs and I took it off and she didn't bother her stitches.my civie sable kept rubbing on her cone and sticking her head in it while miss kitty had it on and miss kitty was getting so mad at her lol.cats seem to heal pretty fast.glad he is home and doing better.
 
Oh Poor Bubba. Just checking in to see how he's doing. I guess if the cone stresses him out I'd leave it off him, too. I hope he mends quickly and starts eating better for you. It's amazing how resilient they are.
 
Brashworks said:
Oh Poor Bubba. Just checking in to see how he's doing. I guess if the cone stresses him out I'd leave it off him, too. I hope he mends quickly and starts eating better for you. It's amazing how resilient they are.
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Thanks Melanie. I just got the cone back on him because it was making me nervous it being off and because Robin & BB made me understand how important it is. Thanks @Robin&BB ! He is resting. I broke down and gave him another dose of pain med because his BG spiked up to 457 about 2 hours after last night's meds were probably gone. Poor baby. I'll p0st a picture for everyone, it's not as bad as I was expecting.
 
So sorry Bubba seems to be in pain. Sleep is very therapeutic, so right now I'm sure the rest is the best thing for him. I'm with you, I wouldn't let him try the steps while he is groggy from pain meds, too risky in my opinion. I'm glad to hear he's eating better! Best to keep the cone on, if it's at all possible. My Bengal boy, Khoji, lacerated his cornea pretty badly last November and had to wear a cone for two weeks, what a nightmare that was! This cat thinks putting Revolution on him is a gross violation of his personal space and a very invasive procedure, so you can imagine how he felt about wearing a cone. We had to double it up with one of those inflatable donuts, and he went through two of them before we were through, lol! After two weeks of putting the cone on every time he got it off, and drops in his eye three times a day, our hands and arms looked like ground beef! (And I actually tore a muscle in my thigh by repeatedly diving too my knees every time I grabbed him for drops, apparently I'm too old for that type of activity, imagine that!)

Hope Bubba feels much better soon! Hugs to you and scritches for Bubba and Forrest. You're a great kitty Mom, and you're doing a wonderful job!

:bighug::bighug::bighug: :cat: :cat: :cat:
 
It was a shock to see Sammy's eye completely red one morning but he still wanted his breakfast!!! I just rushed him straight to the vet who operated immediately seeing as he hadn't eaten. He came home late the following day so he had time to wake up properly. He didn't have the cone on either. He had pain relief and antibiotics/anti inflammatories for a week after. I was having to give him drops in his eye before the op, I can't remember why now, which he hated. He was so much happier after the op. I think it must have been brewing for a while and he was in pain with it, so in a way, it was good for him when it was removed. He was 18 when he had it done. Hope Bubba is feeling better today.
 
Squalliesmom said:
So sorry Bubba seems to be in pain. Sleep is very therapeutic, so right now I'm sure the rest is the best thing for him. I'm with you, I wouldn't let him try the steps while he is groggy from pain meds, too risky in my opinion. I'm glad to hear he's eating better! Best to keep the cone on, if it's at all possible. My Bengal boy, Khoji, lacerated his cornea pretty badly last November and had to wear a cone for two weeks, what a nightmare that was! This cat thinks putting Revolution on him is a gross violation of his personal space and a very invasive procedure, so you can imagine how he felt about wearing a cone. We had to double it up with one of those inflatable donuts, and he went through two of them before we were through, lol! After two weeks of putting the cone on every time he got it off, and drops in his eye three times a day, our hands and arms looked like ground beef! (And I actually tore a muscle in my thigh by repeatedly diving too my knees every time I grabbed him for drops, apparently I'm too old for that type of activity, imagine that!)

Hope Bubba feels much better soon! Hugs to you and scritches for Bubba and Forrest. You're a great kitty Mom, and you're doing a wonderful job!

:bighug::bighug::bighug: :cat: :cat: :cat:
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Oh gosh, Lucy! That whole ordeal with Khoji sounds terrible for you both! And you tore a muscle in you thigh diving! That was a real visual and I hope that your thigh is good as new. I know what you mean about being too old for this. I hurt my shoulder trying to get Bubba out of a tight spot and a contortionist, I am NOT!!! I can't imagine the cone for 2 weeks! It seems so cruel but I really do understand the importance of it. It's tough love. He is getting there, just not pooping, the buprenex is constipating and with the dang cone on, he can't drink water when he wants to so I am adding water to his food and syringing it. He is peeing though......Thanks for you good wishes. :bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug:
 
Sue484 said:
It was a shock to see Sammy's eye completely red one morning but he still wanted his breakfast!!! I just rushed him straight to the vet who operated immediately seeing as he hadn't eaten. He came home late the following day so he had time to wake up properly. He didn't have the cone on either. He had pain relief and antibiotics/anti inflammatories for a week after. I was having to give him drops in his eye before the op, I can't remember why now, which he hated. He was so much happier after the op. I think it must have been brewing for a while and he was in pain with it, so in a way, it was good for him when it was removed. He was 18 when he had it done. Hope Bubba is feeling better today.
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I can only imagine waking up to see his eye completely red! When there is pain in the eye prior to the enucleation, it is such a relief to the cat because the eye pain is probably worse than post-surgical pain, or at least that is what the vet told me. So, it was really hard for me to take him in when he was pain free and bring him home to have pain...BUT a very necessary thing to do because eventually he would develop glaucoma and the eye would have to come out. Did you vet not recommend a cone or did you just not enforce it? I complied the day after the surgery, the first day he was so out of it and slept.
 
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