OMG! OMG! OMG! Archer Broke His Leg!!!

CatNipped wrote:

I thought the cage would do the trick, but guess what - he's climbing up the
side of the cage to a spot higher than the window sill (which the vet said
he can't jump from)!!! This is going to be a loooooooong 8 weeks! :

Poor Archer! Purrs for him to get better soon especially since he wants to
climb things. (He is a cat after all, I suspect when little bitties first
open their eyes, they think "Huh? What's all this?" then when they start to
focus their next thought is "What's up there? I wanna go see!")

And purrs for your SIL and neice as well

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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Not being smart but, cats are gonna climb and birds are goona fly. When our
dog broke her leg, noticed "if it really hurt, she didn't do it. Cats are
pretty smart one would think if it hurt they wouldn't do it. Can yoou put
something about half the height of the cage so the cat has something to get
up on? After all, they have to survey their kingdom be it a house or a
cage.
"Lesley via CatKB.com" u27720@uwe wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:

I thought the cage would do the trick, but guess what - he's climbing up
the
side of the cage to a spot higher than the window sill (which the vet said
he can't jump from)!!! This is going to be a loooooooong 8 weeks! :

Poor Archer! Purrs for him to get better soon especially since he wants to
climb things. (He is a cat after all, I suspect when little bitties first
open their eyes, they think "Huh? What's all this?" then when they start
to
focus their next thought is "What's up there? I wanna go see!")

And purrs for your SIL and neice as well

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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Gads, what a really, really depressing night this has been!!! :

Hugs,

CatNipped

{{{{{{{{{{{{ Lori }}}}}}}}}}}}
{{{{{{{{{{{{ Archer }}}}}}}}}}}}

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"Granby" wrote in message
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Not being smart but, cats are gonna climb and birds are goona fly. When
our dog broke her leg, noticed "if it really hurt, she didn't do it.
Cats are pretty smart one would think if it hurt they wouldn't do it.

No, we're talking about a kitten, not a cat. Kittens are pretty darned
stupid, and even compared to kittens Arher is not the sharpest tool in the
shed. He's still trying to run around with his bro-fur like he has the use
of all four legs. Of course, the pain meds are masking most of the pain, so
that too isn't helping him understand that he should use that leg.

Can yoou put something about half the height of the cage so the cat has
something to get up on? After all, they have to survey their kingdom be
it a house or a cage.

The vet was very insistent about not letting him jump because his femur is
broken all the way across. It's not out of alignment, but with only a
splint (they don't put real plaster casts on cats), if he jars that leg too
much the simple fracture could become a compound fracture and that would
mean he'd have to have surgery.

Hugs,

CatNipped

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CatNipped wrote:

I thought the cage would do the trick, but guess what - he's climbing up
the
side of the cage to a spot higher than the window sill (which the vet
said
he can't jump from)!!! This is going to be a loooooooong 8 weeks! :

Poor Archer! Purrs for him to get better soon especially since he wants
to
climb things. (He is a cat after all, I suspect when little bitties first
open their eyes, they think "Huh? What's all this?" then when they start
to
focus their next thought is "What's up there? I wanna go see!")

And purrs for your SIL and neice as well

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:

Poor Archer! He looks like he's handling that cast pretty well, though.

What a depressing night this was because while we were there a man,
his wife, and their two children brought in a poodle that was hit by
a car, a man and his pregnant wife brought in a dog that was fatally
shot (it was a pit bull that kept escaping so a neighbor shot it),
and a man and his wife brought in a cat that was hit by a car - after
all that we felt lucky that Archer wasn't hurt worse than he is.

No joke! I don't like pit bulls but the answer isn't to shoot a dog,
sorry.

But on another note, while we were waiting I decided to call my mom
and it went something like this...

Me: "How's everybody doing?"

Mom: "Fine, Annie (my sister-in-law) had her first chemotherapy."

Me: "WHAT??!!!"

Mom: "Oh, didn't I tell you she had breast cancer?"

Me: "Um, NO!!!"

Mom: "Yeah, she has stage three cancer that spread to her lymph
nodes and they're giving her 'red hot' chemotherapy (my mom didn't
know what it's really called, just that it's so strong it makes your
hair fall out after just one treatment and turns your urine red).
And Tanya (my niece) is worse - her depression is so bad now that she
had to quit work."

Me: "WHAT???!!!"

Mom: "Oh, didn't I tell you that she went into a deep depression
after Katrina?"

And so the conversation went!

Gads, what a really, really depressing night this has been!!! :

Hugs,

CatNipped

Lori, I have only one thing to say about your SIL and chemotherapy.
L-Glutamine powder. She can find it at GNC or other healthfood stores. A
couple of Tbs. per day mixed in water, drink it down. Doesn't taste good,
but trust me. My father has been through chemo twice and he swears by the
stuff. A nurse at the hospital tipped him off about it. No only does it
help with the nausea, he also kept him from losing all his hair. The
nurse
had to whisper about it to him because doctors don't like it when nurses
mention anything homoepathic. Dad swears by it.

And I'm sorry for what you're dealing with. Purrs for you, for your SIL,
for your niece and for poor Archer.

Jill

Thanks Jill, I'll be sure to tell her about it (if she'll listen) - she's
not big on listening to anyone about what she should do. The doctor told
her to take her anti-nausea medicine right after her chemo, but she felt OK
at first and didn't take it. Hours later when she was throwing her guts up,
it was too late to take it since she couldn't keep it down!

Hugs,

CatNipped

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CatNipped wrote:

Archer was in the garage using the litter box and I didn't know he was
there. I was on my way out to the pharmacy to fill a prescription and
hit
the "door open" button to open the garage door. The noise scared Archer
so
bad he shot out of the garage at light speed. He must have hit his left
rear leg on the door sill. Ben said he got to the first landing on the
stairs and collapsed.

The emergency vet gave him morphine and took x-rays and found that is
tibia
was broken, but wasn't displaced so he won't have to have bone surgery.
They splinted the leg and sent him home with muscle relaxers, pain pills
and
a copy of the x-rays to bring to our regular vet on Saturday. We have
to
keep him confined in a place where he can't jump up on anything or the
simple break could turn into a compound fracture.

Here's poor Archer in his cast:
http://www.possibleplaces.com/CatNipped/Broken/ - I'll take more
pictures
once we've assembled the cage.

Oh, no!!! The poor little guy. How unfair that this bundle of energy
has to be *confined* for such a long time! I mean, he got the injury
because he just moves so damn fast. Now he'll have to cool his heels at
the worst possible time for him. I agree that having his brother in the
crate with him might help his morale.

I'm really glad it wasn't a more serious break. He'll be OK! But he
really looks like he doesn't quite know what hit him in those pictures.

Well, to be honest, when I took those pictures he was still zonked out on
morphine! He seemed more alert this morning. He ate almost a whole can of
food (which is good since I have to give him his meds on a full stomach).


When I was a kid, one of our cats was hit by a car and got his leg
broken. He had to wear a cast for a couple of months, and after it was
healed, he could never sit down in a completely normal way. He always
had to stick his leg out to the side. It became quite the distinguishing
characteristic, especially when he got older and really cranky. He'd
sit facing the wall with his ears back (ie, "giving us the ear"), with
his leg stuck out to the side. Wish I had pictures.

Archer puts his leg completely behind his head to get it out of his way - he
looks like a contortionist! He always was pigeon-toed, so he'll probably
just be more so!

Hugs,

CatNipped


Joyce

Gosh, things never stay dull for long at your house. Best wishes for
speedy recoveries, for everybody.

Bobble

On Sep 27, 9:25 am, "CatNipped" wrote:
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Archer puts his leg completely behind his head to get it out of his way - he
looks like a contortionist! He always was pigeon-toed, so he'll probably
just be more so!

Good healing for Archer and for your sister-in-law. Sounds like two
difficult patients.

Will in New Haven

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Hugs,

CatNipped





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Purrs and prayers that Archer recovers quickly. And that
you don't have any more terrible nights like that.

Lily & her mama

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to the stars we return
from now until the end of time.

"CatNipped" wrote in message
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Archer was in the garage using the litter box and I didn't know he was
there. I was on my way out to the pharmacy to fill a prescription and hit
the "door open" button to open the garage door. The noise scared Archer
so bad he shot out of the garage at light speed. He must have hit his
left rear leg on the door sill. Ben said he got to the first landing on
the stairs and collapsed.

It was 6:30 and our vet stays open until 7:00, *however* they turn off
their phones at 6:30. We put Archer in his Sherpa bag and I sped to the
vet's office. We got there at 6:45, but the vet was already in emergency
surgery so they told us we had to go to the emergency vet. We piled back
in the truck and drove umpteen miles to the emergency vet.

The emergency vet gave him morphine and took x-rays and found that is
tibia was broken, but wasn't displaced so he won't have to have bone
surgery. They splinted the leg and sent him home with muscle relaxers,
pain pills and a copy of the x-rays to bring to our regular vet on
Saturday. We have to keep him confined in a place where he can't jump up
on anything or the simple break could turn into a compound fracture.
While I was waiting at the vet for them to get done, Ben drove to PetsMart
and bought a very large dog cage that we can put litterbox, food, and a
bed in for when we're at work.

Here's poor Archer in his cast:
http://www.possibleplaces.com/CatNipped/Broken/ - I'll take more pictures
once we've assembled the cage.

What a depressing night this was because while we were there a man, his
wife, and their two children brought in a poodle that was hit by a car, a
man and his pregnant wife brought in a dog that was fatally shot (it was a
pit bull that kept escaping so a neighbor shot it), and a man and his wife
brought in a cat that was hit by a car - after all that we felt lucky that
Archer wasn't hurt worse than he is.

But on another note, while we were waiting I decided to call my mom and it
went something like this...

Me: "How's everybody doing?"

Mom: "Fine, Annie (my sister-in-law) had her first chemotherapy."

Me: "WHAT??!!!"

Mom: "Oh, didn't I tell you she had breast cancer?"

Me: "Um, NO!!!"

Mom: "Yeah, she has stage three cancer that spread to her lymph nodes and
they're giving her 'red hot' chemotherapy (my mom didn't know what it's
really called, just that it's so strong it makes your hair fall out after
just one treatment and turns your urine red). And Tanya (my niece) is
worse - her depression is so bad now that she had to quit work."

Me: "WHAT???!!!"

Mom: "Oh, didn't I tell you that she went into a deep depression after
Katrina?"

And so the conversation went!

Gads, what a really, really depressing night this has been!!! :

Hugs,

CatNipped

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On Sep 26, 10:29 pm, "CatNipped" wrote:

Gads, what a really, really depressing night this has been!!! :

Hugs,

CatNipped


Poor Archer! Poor Sister! And poor slaves in the ER vet. What a day.
You must be cursed with that Chinese curse
"May you live in interesting times"

Jane
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