Mogs, she is sitting on the desk next to my keyboard as I write this, and she's purring like crazy. I think she's glad to be home.
I expected her to be wobbly and weak and disoriented, but she's surprisingly bright....
And she has eaten food! She has just lapped up a bowl of high calorie cat food that I blitzed in a blender with some water. But she did actually lap it all up: She didn't just lap a few mouthfuls and then run away like her food was the enemy...
Had a long chat with the vet (what a lovely bloke he is, he really does care about the animals, bless him).
He scaled and cleaned her teeth, but couldn't see any obvious sign of infection anywhere. But there was one tooth that had sort of splintered through the middle and had a lot of inflammation around it, so he removed that and then put a few stitches in the gum. He was concerned though that the problems he could see didn't actually seem as 'bad' as he was expecting given that she had ceased to be able to eat.....at all....
All her other teeth seemed sound as far as he could see. But he said he doesn't have the kind of specialist equipment that dental specialists have that enable them to view below the gum line in fine detail. He said that if she were a younger cat he
might have removed some other teeth just as a precautionary measure. But he couldn't guarantee that they were a risk, and given Sophie's age her jaw his likely to be
extremely fragile, and he didn't want to risk breaking her jaw in order to remove teeth that may not actually be a problem. He said that he felt in a real dilemma, because if he'd broken her jaw he'd have no choice but to put her to sleep straight away as it would be unlikely that her jaw would heal (given her age); and.....he wanted "to be able to sleep at night" (and I think he really
meant that.....)
So....he's done what he felt he could do in the circumstances. But there is still a 'question mark' over whether he's fixed the problem... We'll have to wait and see.... I have to say though that I am
hugely encouraged by Sophie hoovering up a bowl of liquidized food. And having her sit next to me while I type this is amazingly special.
I honestly didn't know if I'd be bringing her home alive this evening, and I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that she is actually still here! But she
is here, and she's eaten food too. Wow, that's just brilliant.... Every day I have with her is going to feel like a gift after today.....
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