Max’s new owner rescued him from the streets. He was apparently in(?) a plastic bag by the street of an actually rich village when he was found.

Max was presented due to limping and at presentation, the left forelimb was swollen, painful to touch and has a wound with pus oozing. Radiograph revealed no fractures and/or dislocations but is suspicious for periosteitis.

Max during one of our would cleaning nights

Medications, wound management and removal of pus was the main goal. Increasing the appetite is also included. 4 days later, Max was ready to go home.

he's having his ears cleaned - earmites...

wound has actually improved from a swollen one with oozing pus to this one with granulation tissue forming.

The funny thing was Max was only given his name on the day of his discharge, about 4 days after presentation. During his stay at the clinic he doesn’t have a name and is identified only as Siamese kitten.

A few days later, Max’s owner called up that Max is actually a lot better. He’s walking, though still limping, and is more playful than ever. Aside from that he is also more demanding now… hehehe. Siamese.

As of posting of this blog, max has not visited the clinic yet but I got spoke with the owner just the other night. Apparently, Max is very very active now, the wound healed though with slight limping and he has a very good appetite. He'll be visiting this coming week.

I asked the owner if she's still willing to give up max for adoption, she said "not anymore", she loves max and intends to keep him.

This is nicole… after boob repair!

I didn’t took a before shot - I forgot. Sorry!
Well, what happened was she jumped off a fence, and giving birth about two weeks ago, unaware that her mammary glands enlarged maximally, got caught on the wire leaving a 5 inch laceration. Luckily, it wasn’t too deep. But is was bloody and during repair, I noticed blood and milk mixing… I know she was just fine, she stayed about two more days after her admittance. The owner apparently forgot she was in, I think. But she terribly missed her puppies while at the clinic.

EMBOLISM

This is a ragdoll. A cat if you are not so familiar with the breed.

Anyway, she has an wound problem. Apparently there was an embolus affected one of her hindleg. As you may know, an embolus may be an air, a clot, a fat lobule, hair or any particle that travels within the blood vessel which may cause obstruction of the vessel. This condition is called embolism. If this happens, the affected area loses blood supply and if this happened that area will slowly die. If medical intervention is done then the area may be saved, if not, the body may still try to save itself but usually takes longer and the dying area may be predisposed to infection and gangrene (gangrene is the term to describe the death of a part of a body due to lack of blood supply as a result of several conditions like trauma, embolism, vascular disease or infection) thereby worsening the condition.


Here are some pictures of the case.
IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH, ITS TIME TO RUN AND SCREAM LIKE CRAZY!!!
if you can handle this one then go on.


Do you want to faint? Ok if you can handle things then i'll go on.







These two pictures were taken after some of the areas affected died leaving an open wound. There are different types of managing an open wound (of which i will not go into more detail) and here, they treated the area as an open wound, applied bandages and cleaned the area on a regular basis such that they slowly tried to close the area when granulation tissue formed and there is enough skin to cover the wound.

















This was taken during one of the many wound cleaning visits of this cat. Bandages were replaced every now and then and the wound is monitored for improvement and healing.






























After some time the wound healed and treatment ended on September 9, 2008, with a little less a bone and tissues.

Now look at the healed leg of this ragdoll, unfortunately she is unable to use this leg but i think she's fine with three legs though.

This was a case in the AI Animal Medical Center and the present condition of this cat was relayed by Dr. Yunuki Toshi.