My vet rang this morning and said he had settled as well as could be expected with his injury and that there was no internal bleeding. The other problem that might occur was that he might not be able to urinate; this would mean that the spinal column was crushed and there would be no other option, but to put him to sleep. However, there were no such problems and my vet had spoken to a specialist.
That left us with two options, one was to cage him in a carrier the size of a cat carrier for three months and hope that the spine healed. One false move and the spine was likely to move and cause more damage, which by then would be irreparable. The other option was major surgery to pin his spine together. As far as we were concerned this left only one option.
We collected him from one veterinary hospital in Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire and I drove very carefully to another specialist unit, Dick White Referrals which is in a village called Six Mile Bottom, near Newmarket in Suffolk; we live in Essex!
We left him there to have an MRI and for the surgery to be carried out during the afternoon. He has some damage to his right back leg and there is a thirty percent chance that he will not gain the full use of it. Animals, especially cats are very adaptable and Giunio the surgeon, thinks he will cope well.
We are not allowed to visit him for at least three days and he has to stay there for a week. Giunio phoned during the early evening to say ‘your little boy is fine’. It seems the operation went well although after the anaesthetic he was needless to say, a little groggy.
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