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Cat spay wound infection puss drainage, 10th day, done by 3rd world vet in Peru, help!
We took Precious kittie, est. age 8, 9 months to be spayed at a small
vet clinic in Lima, Peru; after the surgery, wound seemed longer than needed to be able to enter abdomen and remove the uterus and ovaries, which we were shown after the butcher-like procedure. We were given no post-op instructions, just that the cat wouldnīt be paralyzed, not to worry about her walking half-paralyzed, dragging hind legs when anethesia (ketamine) wore off on 2nd day. I had no idea she should have been kept inside a box or cage, as to not move. An injection was given, said it was an antibiotic. Precious kittie, didnīt complain much, she mostly slept during the first 6 days. She was allowed to move about and used her litter box normally. She seems like a fighter! We were supposed to come back to have external stitches removed on the 7th day, but on the 6th day, Precious kittie ended up with a 15cm incision up from the wound toward her chest after cutting open and cleaning an infection: a puss bubble. The original spay incision was 7cm long (which was re-opened to clean the infection) and appeared sewn poorly. We brought her back again the next day (the 8th day), following the removal of the puss bubble, she was given another antibiotic im injection, her wound was washed with soapy water, and then she seemed fine. We were sold a small tube of Nutri-cal for $38 (seems expensive; the whole procedure seems wrong, but what can I do here, in the 3rd world, things are not honest, their licenses arenīt real, nobody cares, not the police, they are kidnappers..anyway...) and we were told not to feed cat food, which I donīt agree. Kittie has been eating light and drinking water, however she hasnīt defecated today, only urinated. The wound seems to have puss drainage, no blood. We are cleaning it 2x daily. Kittie sleeps and moews happily, she responds to food and we use Nurti-cal to get her to swallow antibiotic pills. We were given a single tab of Floxocil, divided up in 7 tiny pieces to give one daily with the Nutri-cal, is this enough? Kittie is wearing a surgical collar with plastic mask, so she won't lick wound, which costed us $20! The spay was $45, not that it matters, but I donīt think it was a real schooled vet. I feel so terrible watching Precious suffer in a box. I need help, any professional, authentic, knowledgeable advice? |
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Cat spay wound infection puss drainage, 10th day, done by 3rd world vet in Peru, help!
You need vet advice, so I am crossposting to alt.med.veterinary
"angela l" wrote in message oups.com... We took Precious kittie, est. age 8, 9 months to be spayed at a small vet clinic in Lima, Peru; after the surgery, wound seemed longer than needed to be able to enter abdomen and remove the uterus and ovaries, which we were shown after the butcher-like procedure. We were given no post-op instructions, just that the cat wouldnīt be paralyzed, not to worry about her walking half-paralyzed, dragging hind legs when anethesia (ketamine) wore off on 2nd day. I had no idea she should have been kept inside a box or cage, as to not move. An injection was given, said it was an antibiotic. Precious kittie, didnīt complain much, she mostly slept during the first 6 days. She was allowed to move about and used her litter box normally. She seems like a fighter! We were supposed to come back to have external stitches removed on the 7th day, but on the 6th day, Precious kittie ended up with a 15cm incision up from the wound toward her chest after cutting open and cleaning an infection: a puss bubble. The original spay incision was 7cm long (which was re-opened to clean the infection) and appeared sewn poorly. We brought her back again the next day (the 8th day), following the removal of the puss bubble, she was given another antibiotic im injection, her wound was washed with soapy water, and then she seemed fine. We were sold a small tube of Nutri-cal for $38 (seems expensive; the whole procedure seems wrong, but what can I do here, in the 3rd world, things are not honest, their licenses arenīt real, nobody cares, not the police, they are kidnappers..anyway...) and we were told not to feed cat food, which I donīt agree. Kittie has been eating light and drinking water, however she hasnīt defecated today, only urinated. The wound seems to have puss drainage, no blood. We are cleaning it 2x daily. Kittie sleeps and moews happily, she responds to food and we use Nurti-cal to get her to swallow antibiotic pills. We were given a single tab of Floxocil, divided up in 7 tiny pieces to give one daily with the Nutri-cal, is this enough? Kittie is wearing a surgical collar with plastic mask, so she won't lick wound, which costed us $20! The spay was $45, not that it matters, but I donīt think it was a real schooled vet. I feel so terrible watching Precious suffer in a box. I need help, any professional, authentic, knowledgeable advice? Inviato da X-Privat.Org - Registrazione gratuita http://www.x-privat.org/join.php |
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Cat spay wound infection puss drainage, 10th day, done by 3rd world vet in Peru, help!
"angela l" wrote in message
oups.com... We took Precious kittie, est. age 8, 9 months to be spayed at a small vet clinic in Lima, Peru; .......she needs to find another vet. Lima is not a small town, I'm sure there's other vet help available. I had a dog spayed once in Mexico and it was the best job of stitching I'd ever seen with zero complications, so don't assume because you're in Peru that good help can't be found. buglady take out the dog before replying |
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Cat spay wound infection puss drainage, 10th day, done by 3rd world vet in Peru, help!
......she needs to find another vet. Lima is not a small town, I'm sure
there's other vet help available. I had a dog spayed once in Mexico and it was the best job of stitching I'd ever seen with zero complications, so don't assume because you're in Peru that good help can't be found. And there are two veterinary schools. Vet schools in the states have clinics. Can't imagine they wouldn't in Peru. One in San marcos: http://veterinaria.unmsm.edu.pe/ ....and one in Lima: http://www.ucsur.edu.pe/facultades/veterinaria.asp |
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Cat spay wound infection puss drainage, 10th day, done by 3rd world vet in Peru, help!
buglady wrote: "angela l" wrote in message oups.com... We took Precious kittie, est. age 8, 9 months to be spayed at a small vet clinic in Lima, Peru; ......she needs to find another vet. Lima is not a small town, I'm sure there's other vet help available. I had a dog spayed once in Mexico and it was the best job of stitching I'd ever seen with zero complications, so don't assume because you're in Peru that good help can't be found. buglady take out the dog before replying Thank you for reading my post and for your kind concern, however, Mexico is the 2nd world; Peru is the 3rd world. When tourists come here like I did the first time 5 years ago, it appears to be a nice place. I have beeen here for so long and learned I cannot even report this, as there are no regulations. Turns out that woman, pretending to be a vet, renting an old clinic and selling pet products, performs surgery under a guise. After we had a new vet see Kittie, we learned the subcutaneo was sewn, used fishingline, which explains the infection. She had re-bobined a spool that said "surgical" with fishingline. Getting the police involved would mean they extort more money from me, which is how the law works here, hostage style, no kidding. On the bright side, I did find a trained vet, a friend, with a private home visit-based practice. He even told me here in Peru, the clinics are all about harming animals, for the purpose of extorting money. Hospitals and even banks here in Peru are run like a circus. The people are even treated like animals, forced to cram 20 passengers into a 8 passenger van with really bad exhaust and that is their only public transportation system. Donīt get me wrong I love Peru, but I cannot trust the people. I just hope Kittie makes it; letīs pray! |
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Cat spay wound infection puss drainage, 10th day, done by 3rd world vet in Peru, help!
Thank you for your time and concern, but those arenīt even real (vet)
schools here in Peru, just another group of people doing business in order to take advantage of the poor and ignorant; they are set up to make money under false pretenses. Anybody can pose as a college professor, a lawyer, a doctor, etc. For the lack of open mindedness (because in Peru the mindset is all about tradition and that is mimicking what someone else did, and doing it very poorly) and lack of education, they have very outdated practices. You have no idea how poor people live in other countries till you travel as a non-tourist and actually live there. Sorry for going on about this. Sharon wrote: ......she needs to find another vet. Lima is not a small town, I'm sure there's other vet help available. I had a dog spayed once in Mexico and it was the best job of stitching I'd ever seen with zero complications, so don't assume because you're in Peru that good help can't be found. And there are two veterinary schools. Vet schools in the states have clinics. Can't imagine they wouldn't in Peru. One in San marcos: http://veterinaria.unmsm.edu.pe/ ...and one in Lima: http://www.ucsur.edu.pe/facultades/veterinaria.asp |
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Cat spay wound infection puss drainage, 10th day, done by 3rd world vet in Peru, help!
Update, found a real vet who works home-visit style because the clinics
are simply aweful places where they harm amimals in order to extort money. Found the subcutaneo layer was sewn with fishingline (by that butcher pretending to be a vet, which explains the infection). Tomorrow this new doctor is coming to my house in the morning to see if the (real) antibiotic is working and will have to re-suture everything, no cost spared. Based on my limited knowledge, it seems the antibiotic (injections given during 3 days) has to work to clear the infection as to allow tissues to be sutured with special surgical supplies, dissolvable stitches. If anyone has any ideas or advice, please send comments. angela l wrote: We took Precious kittie, est. age 8, 9 months to be spayed at a small vet clinic in Lima, Peru; after the surgery, wound seemed longer than needed to be able to enter abdomen and remove the uterus and ovaries, which we were shown after the butcher-like procedure. We were given no post-op instructions, just that the cat wouldnīt be paralyzed, not to worry about her walking half-paralyzed, dragging hind legs when anethesia (ketamine) wore off on 2nd day. I had no idea she should have been kept inside a box or cage, as to not move. An injection was given, said it was an antibiotic. Precious kittie, didnīt complain much, she mostly slept during the first 6 days. She was allowed to move about and used her litter box normally. She seems like a fighter! We were supposed to come back to have external stitches removed on the 7th day, but on the 6th day, Precious kittie ended up with a 15cm incision up from the wound toward her chest after cutting open and cleaning an infection: a puss bubble. The original spay incision was 7cm long (which was re-opened to clean the infection) and appeared sewn poorly. We brought her back again the next day (the 8th day), following the removal of the puss bubble, she was given another antibiotic im injection, her wound was washed with soapy water, and then she seemed fine. We were sold a small tube of Nutri-cal for $38 (seems expensive; the whole procedure seems wrong, but what can I do here, in the 3rd world, things are not honest, their licenses arenīt real, nobody cares, not the police, they are kidnappers..anyway...) and we were told not to feed cat food, which I donīt agree. Kittie has been eating light and drinking water, however she hasnīt defecated today, only urinated. The wound seems to have puss drainage, no blood. We are cleaning it 2x daily. Kittie sleeps and moews happily, she responds to food and we use Nurti-cal to get her to swallow antibiotic pills. We were given a single tab of Floxocil, divided up in 7 tiny pieces to give one daily with the Nutri-cal, is this enough? Kittie is wearing a surgical collar with plastic mask, so she won't lick wound, which costed us $20! The spay was $45, not that it matters, but I donīt think it was a real schooled vet. I feel so terrible watching Precious suffer in a box. I need help, any professional, authentic, knowledgeable advice? |
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Cat spay wound infection puss drainage, 10th day, done by 3rd world vet in Peru, help!
"angela l" After we had a new vet see Kittie, we learned the subcutaneo was sewn, used fishingline, which explains the infection. She had re-bobined a spool that said "surgical" with fishingline. Getting the police involved would mean they extort more money from me, which is how the law works here, hostage style, no kidding. On the bright side, I did find a trained vet, a friend, with a private home visit-based practice. [...] Donīt get me wrong I love Peru, but I cannot trust the people. I just hope Kittie makes it; letīs pray! What did the new vet say? I am so glad you got her seen by a real vet. How does kitty seem? Inviato da X-Privat.Org - Registrazione gratuita http://www.x-privat.org/join.php |
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"angela l" wrote in message oups.com... Update, found a real vet who works home-visit style because the clinics are simply aweful places where they harm amimals in order to extort money. Found the subcutaneo layer was sewn with fishingline (by that butcher pretending to be a vet, which explains the infection). Tomorrow this new doctor is coming to my house in the morning to see if the (real) antibiotic is working and will have to re-suture everything, no cost spared. Based on my limited knowledge, it seems the antibiotic (injections given during 3 days) has to work to clear the infection as to allow tissues to be sutured with special surgical supplies, dissolvable stitches. I hope the best for your kitty, I'm so glad you're taking such good care of her. Peru sounds like a tough place to get good vet care and that is a shame. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Cat spay wound infection puss drainage, 10th day, done by 3rd world vet in Peru, help!
You have no idea how poor
people live in other countries till you travel as a non-tourist and actually live there. Been there, done that. :-) Totally understand. Was just trying to give you some sort of direction to go in. I encourage you to read the following experience some North American veterinarians had in Peru: http://www.usask.ca/wcvm/globalvets/...urney/lima.php Especially check out the organization, Amigos de los Animales http://www.anaaweb.org/ . Copied: "We were all given the opportunity to work for at least one day with a non-profit volunteer based organization called Amigos de los Animales. The majority of their funding is provided by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and by other donations. Amigos de los Animales provides free veterinary care for abused and stray animals as well as for people who cannot afford to treat, neuter or spay their animals." The students stated that there are 14 veterinary colleges in Peru. Although it seems that they may not be on par with a Cornell or Penn, I can't imagine they're all crooked (and I speak as someone who has visited such countries and their schools). The American Veterinary Medical Association lists the following as having vet schools in Peru: Cajamarca, Chicayo, Chincha Alta, Lima, Puno. Sorry for going on about this. That's OK. Hope all gets better. |
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