Post-Surgical Kuro-kun

[tiggymalvern]

Kuro is my cat who had major oral surgery five days ago to remove a tumour in his jaw. He has a shaved leg from his catheter for his anaesthesia. He also has a feeding tube in his neck.




We are feeding him liquid food through the tube five times a day because he can't eat yet. As you can see, he finds the process of being fed via a tube very traumatic.



It takes about half an hour from start to finish, with blending up the liquid and feeding him slowly over about 20 minutes (you wouldn't want your stomach to go from empty to full in 30 seconds either!) and then rinsing out the syringes and everything afterwards. So yes, we're spending about two and a half hours every day feeding the cat right now...

He was very quiet the first few days, but now he's back to playing with catnip mouse in the sun 😊



Between biopsies and CT scans and oncology and surgical consults, this is pretty much why I've got nothing fannish done this past month!

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[dreamerinsilico]

Maybe! Thank you, I think I will try that. I don't have to move her around often, thankfully, but it's such a massive undertaking when I do that I'd really like to change it.