#TW: Pet Surgery

[phoenix-flamed]

So funny story!

Today was completely derailed by another vet emergency. One of our other baby boys(who isn't actually a kitten -- he's like 8 I think at this point? But still) was fine this morning, then this afternoon he was behaving very uncharacteristically for his fluffy lovebug self.

I'll put the rest under a Read More, because pet illness.

Come to find out, poor Riley had a crystal blockage, and his bladder had reached a point that it was huge. Needless to say, he was in a lot of pain, and if we hadn't taken him in when we did... I don't want to think about what would have happened.

But they're going to be performing a perineal urethrostomy on him, they removed the blockage and put a catheter in him, and the last update I got was a few hours ago to let us know that he's urinating a little bit.

Tl;dr, when it rains, it pours. But he's alive, and that's what matters most of all. I'm gonna go faceplant in bed, because I am beat -- but I'll try and get at least some writing posted between things I have to do tomorrow.

[leoandreeda]

Please, help me save my Rudy.

This is my pet, Rudy. She got hit by a bus a couple days ago and needs tests and surgeries that are too expensive for me and my family alone.

This was Rudy yesterday. She's awake and may look alright but all the problems she has are on the inside.

We can't have her home (she needs surgeries) and she hasn't been able to sleep without the meds unless we visit her. She even fell asleep in my mom's hand.

Please help us with anything. I'll be eternally grateful.

Shares are very appreciated too.

There's more info in the link down here:

Please, help me save my Rudy.

[abhainnwhump]

This is a concept I can't get out of my head and I need to write it down so I don't put it in my draft where it wouldn't fit.

(Content warning: Pet whump, dehumanization, noncon body modification, therapy-can't-help-you-at-this-point Whumper)

Whumper wanted to dehumanize Whumpee as much as possible. They already force them to sleep in a dog bed, make them eat and drink from dog bowls, make them perform tricks, maybe even had them surgically altered, but that still isn't enough for this asshole Whumper.

They make them to only speak in barks/meows, whether by surgery, magic, or plain conditioning. The only way they can "talk" is through tones of voice. Whumper coos over how cute they are when they don't use words and bark when they're happy. Whumpee is so worn out that they just don't care, the praise is good.

After rescue, they need to relearn how to talk with words. Or maybe Caretaker finds a way to communicate through handle signals until/if they get to that point.

[fearbend]

so i know i disappeared from here again but i’ve been dealing with A LOT to say the least... my budgie’s wing tumour recently returned after it was surgically removed only two months ago. unfortunately, the only option left was having his wing amputated. this was an incredibly hard decision to make, given all of my birds have always been fully flighted and spend majority of their time outside the cage. however after careful consideration and speaking to our avian vet extensively, we agreed that the amputation would give him the best chance at living cancer-free, without affecting his quality of life. bo ended up going into surgery yesterday afternoon and the operation was successful which is such a relief, especially accounting for the added risks that came with his age (he’s 7yo). my little guy is so brave!! he’ll be staying at the vets for the next week so they can monitor him and make sure he recovers well.

obviously losing a limb and becoming flightless will be a huge adjustment so i’m currently working on preparing his new setup ahead of his eventual discharge. activity will likely be minimal to none for the next few weeks so please bear with me while i try to navigate this incredibly stressful time <3

[mintyscuriocabinet]

Odin is doing well after his surgery! (Nothing serious, we just got him neutered) He has to wear this onesie so he doesn't pick at his stitches and it looks so cute on him! I want to buy a matching one for his brother, Loki (he's also a poodle but he's grey)

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

when your pet's health is declining to a very worrying level but you can't go home until thursday because of schoolwork and distance :)

[zuzsenpai]

I’m suddenly not taking this well. Kinda just hit me real bad when I sat down to eat and Zuko wasn’t trying to walk on top of my food. He’s my first pet (other than family pets growing up) and I’ve never had an emergency with him before. I know I caught it early and I know he’s relatively young-ish. But man this sucks. It’s really hard when you live alone and have no friends and your only companion is in the hospital 😭

[roseate-felidae]

Zoe's spay was a success, she woke up and started eating tuna.

I am technically allowed to pick her up at 3.30pm. But my lift (step mum) can only get me down there for 5pm (as picking up sister from college).

Now, I just need to make sure she doesn't rip the internal stitches and that it doesn't get infected.

Over the moon with the results!

@robotslenderman

[seraphim-coinz]

Dude we're so sorry 😟

Your mother is horrible.. I'm glad you're at least off-restrictions now

-🦇🐈‍⬛

Only 1,162 days until I can leave!!! (When I'm 18 :3 I'm turning 15 soon so it's like 3 years and a month!!)

I'll be real, I'm kind of scared I won't make it. But I'm going to try my best, promise!!!!

[chipped-chimera]

I am ... Idk man. I'm pissed. I'm sad. I'm angry. So the Green Neon Tetras I got absolutely came down with ich and there was so much fucking conflicting information out there ... well it delayed me treating it. Heck I was trying to just be sure I was seeing what I was seeing at first.

Anyway I've lost 3. I think it might be 4 this morning. By tomorrow I suspect it'll be two more. If any manage to scrape through it'll be down to 4. If I'm lucky.

Everyone else (Corycats, Starlight Bristlenose) are fine. Though the Corycats show some signs of being itchy, nothing's become visible and they were on the tank the day I started treatment. Yeah I know, quarantine tank yadda yadda. But considering a 100ml bottle of medication costs 40 bucks and I need to use it for 14 days minimum at 4.5 mL a day - no way was I doing two tanks. It's likely I'm going to run out soon and money is tight since this decided to happen right around me replacing my HDD.

I cried when the first one died. Now I just feel ... numb. My mood has been awful, which isn't looking great for my very expensive rTMS treatment - I'm literally at halfway today. I should have seen results. Instead I'm bouncing between hating myself and angry at everything else because information is so diluted and despite researching this tank for over three months straight, trying so goddamn hard not to fuck up - I fucked up. I know I shouldn't blame myself, but a part of me deep down does. Because maybe I was too stupid to realise on such tiny fish the situation was only going to get worse faster. Then I'm angry I feel stupid because the information isn't clear, or that I feel stupid for crying over a fish because that's what normal people think. I hate how everything is really affordable but then medicines are so prohibitive it'd be more cost effective to let them all fucking die. I hate how people regard fish as objects, decorations for their goddamn bathroom or some kind of 'investment' for rarer varieties, swimming in sterile tanks like their a goddamn floating gold bar - not a life. A living, breathing, thinking little life. That I let down. So yeah I'll fucking cry because no one else will.

This tank was supposed to be a source of relief while I went through this intense treatment but now it's just a trigger for me ruminating over and over. I worry with the tetra population so depleted it's going to cause them more stress making them more likely to die. I'm scared to do water changes, though I need to keep doing them.

I'm angry this parasite is so common it's considered to be encountered by anyone new to the hobby within 6 months, because it takes no prisoners - any kind of fish can get it. I'm angry research only revealed the possibility of a vaccine a few years ago, despite fish being the most owned pet globally. I'm angry the reputable, best aquarium shop in my entire city had tetra carrying this and there's jack shit I can do. I don't know whether to tell them or not even bother. Given the entire shop runs on what I suspect are the same sumps, it's likely everything has the risk.

Maybe I'm just stupid and this is all my fault.

I'll keep trying. I'll buy another 40 dollar bottle and treat them for the 14 days and aone more week just in case. I put too much work into this to give up.

[twinknote]

pls send my goodest girl nola the most healing vibes ever 💕 she had acl surgery today and she is very not feeling good and it is breaking my heart. ft. her version of the zoomies

[youreonyourownkid]

hii my dog is at the vet’s today getting a small mast cell tumor removed if you don’t mind just keeping him in your thoughts 🤍

[themimz]

Please help me pay for my kitties surgery

They found an unknown mass that needs to be removed. It may be her spleen or intestine but there is no way to know for sure until they do it. I am still unemployed despite my best efforts and cannot afford it on my own

[foxymoxynoona]

oh no is everything okay? i have noticed you haven’t been around on tumblr lately but i didn’t want to come across as nosy

I'm actually an oversharer about most things LOL so it's not nosy to me, I'm endeared you noticed my behavior as different at all! I don't want to be mysterious or cryptic because I will be ok eventually. I will make it through all of this. But not everything that's going on will turn out ok and sometimes I think that's important to recognize too. So I'll give some more detail for those who are wondering beneath the cut.

TW: medical stuff, parent cancer, surgeries, pet loss.

My health is kind of wreck right now. It turns out I have a rather large lesion (medical jargon for "thing") in my small intestines, so I most likely have surgery ahead, possibly major, BUT we think this is finally what's been causing my debilitating anemia (because it turns out it wasn't the big benign ovarian tumor I had removed, which is crazy). At this point all the tests are looking like it's not malignant or invasive (ie, cancer) YAY, but the doctors are confused about what it is, which is never a good feeling lol so we're waiting on a second opinion from an expert who's on vacation right now and damn, waiting on test results SUCKS. Some of the medical tests have been really hard and stressful. One of the testing procedures caused a painful problem I had to have minor surgery to fix last week which has been a tougher recovery than I had anticipated. Even before that, I've just been in a lot of pain that's hard to live around.

And we just learned my husband has a vestibular schwannoma (a benign tumor on his hearing nerve) and it has some serious life-changing risks no matter what we do. And my dad with a brain tumor has taken a bad turn because his tumor became resistant to the chemo (I'm not sure I've ever mentioned this here...) and I live so far away from my parents. We're hoping a new chemo will make a difference and he's pushed through before but prognosis is always guarded. You can know something is inevitable and never be ready for it.

And like I mentioned, a lot bad pain and uncertainty and constant medical appointments and through all this I have a stressful job and busy kids (one with a birthday party this week!) with their own needs and I really miss my dog who passed away unexpectedly in November because he was my snugglebug when I was sick, and plus my immune system is shot right now with the stress, so I am getting hit with every stupid illness, so eating and sleeping have been hard which you know always makes dealing with things harder. I just got WRECKED by this cold for days that barely touched anyone else in my family and I'm better today but my poor nose 🤡. oh also my husband got laid off 6 weeks ago but he has managed to find a new job to start next month so we can check that one off the stress list and it's actually a great move for him! 😵‍💫 but yeah, that was stressful too!

This isn't even everything but it's the most pressing things 😮‍💨, they just keep piling up. It's just been a lot. Usually tumblr and BTS and my writing and this community are my little safe haven but the pain and stress have left me so hollow that I've just been sort of emotionally shut off from a lot of my usual joys. Writing is like breathing to me and it's scary when it stops.

But I will be ok. I will adapt to whatever medical stuff is coming up even if it's scary, and my husband will adapt to whatever happens with his medical stuff even if it's hard, and I will push through all of the things, and I will even survive the inevitable loss of my dad, which isn't ok but is what it is. I felt a little better today for the first time in a long time, my cold is improving and it wasn't a bad pain day and I even wrote a few paragraphs. Sometimes these small victory days are the best we can manage.

Anyway, sorry this was crazy long if you didn't want all the details. But thanks for asking about me, it's really sweet 🥰

ETA: Since writing this Tuesday night, our childcare just gave her 2-week notice 😭

[tolerateit]

my cat probably needs oral surgery and the vet is nervous about putting him under because of his heart so i’m a huge wreck:)

[vsfnpetblog]

Stewart update

TW; surgical scar

Stewart is done his meds and some of his scabbing is already peeling! Today is his last night in the hospital cage. After I do his laundry, I'll set him up in his big cage. Next step is getting him use to moving his leg around, then maybe getting him to climb up something. The tumor greatly impacted his range of movement so I have to pay extra attention to him so he can let me know his limits.