Hansel , my Cornie and his Leg..

[Catzzzmeow]

YAY! I have to admit I have been looking for your update. That is great news @assibassi. I like nothing better than to say "i told you so" this time...happy healing Hansel...keep up the good work!


Patti

 

[assibassi]

Ohhhh and Thank you all for praying for him and keeping him in your thoughts , even though he is not a sphynx !!!
Thanks all !!!!
I really love you all and this place

 

[Catzzzmeow]

@assibassi Sphynx or not...never really think of them as anything different than part of The Lair Family. Please just try to stress less and get some much deserved sleep.


Patti

 

[GizmosMommy]

Awesome update

 

[1sphynxlover]

Glad to hear he's on the road to recovery. Sending more thoughts and prayers to both of you.

 

[NinaGato]

That is good to hear he is healing well. I was hoping to see an update.
Poor guy with hus new cone if shame. But if it makes things heal faster cuz he can't chew at hus let all the better.
Hugs

 

[GoldHazel]

Update : Today was the Day for the Re check and re bandaging of Hansel's paw/leg.

I dropped him off at the Vet and she had a busy morning, so she said she probably will get to him mid day. So since he was not having a feeding till 4pm anyways, Art picked him up when he got off work at 3.30.
She told him, she was herself amazed in how good he healed ! It looks so good she said, it looks more healed then 4 days . She rebandaged it and told us we probably want to pick a bigger cone up for him, since he can reach his leg with the one he had .
He has to keep this bandage on till this weekend and then we can take it off and he can take care of his own stitches and pull them out himself. By then he should be awesome healed . SInce its so healed already.
I havent seen it yet , ARt either. But she said she is super impressed with the progress.

So after work Mommy Meanny went to the Store and got a bigger cone for him.
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he is MAD !!! But he can not reach his leg. He does have lots of room in there and its also not tight around his neck, because he does not have the extra paw to peel it off ! hehe Mean mommy !!
So needles to say he is mad and meowing when he sees us. We can take it easy off , for feeding . Lets see how this night goes with it. He was drving me insane.

I am soooooooo happy !!!! Hoping for him to heal quicker and more for this week !!

Aww, Assi, that's wonderful news that Hansel is healing better than your vet expected him to so soon.
Keep up the good healing work, Hansel...you sweet boy.
By the way, I never heard of a vet letting the pet remove the stitches themselves! My vets have always had me bring them back in for removal.

 

[andreanar]

Yay for heal fast Hansel!

 

[assibassi]

a little set back today ............................. Art stayed home and I went to work.
Middle of the day he calls me , I need to come home right now, Hansel keeps shaking his leg so much and he shook the bandage right off his leg ! He is chewing on the soar part . I ran home . On my way home i stopped and got gauze and tape and such and ran . We tried wrapping him up good, but he shook that one right off too. I do not know how tight i can go so i am afraid to make it too tight.
Well needless to say, he went to the Vet and had it rebandaged to day. She said, he needs to keep it on till Friday at least.
I myself had a dentist appt so had to run to that. Art said, by the time they got to the Vet he already chewed it a bit bloody . :cry::cry: I am so sad !! Both of us have to g o to work tomorrow and i am so afraid to come home and he has it open again and chewed open.

What can i do ?????

 

[SphynxKid]

a little set back today ............................. Art stayed home and I went to work.
Middle of the day he calls me , I need to come home right now, Hansel keeps shaking his leg so much and he shook the bandage right off his leg ! He is chewing on the soar part . I ran home . On my way home i stopped and got gauze and tape and such and ran . We tried wrapping him up good, but he shook that one right off too. I do not know how tight i can go so i am afraid to make it too tight.
Well needless to say, he went to the Vet and had it rebandaged to day. She said, he needs to keep it on till Friday at least.
I myself had a dentist appt so had to run to that. Art said, by the time they got to the Vet he already chewed it a bit bloody . :cry::cry: I am so sad !! Both of us have to g o to work tomorrow and i am so afraid to come home and he has it open again and chewed open.

What can i do ?????

Sometimes as wounds start to heal, they really start to itch, so maybe that is why he has started to mess with it and try to get to through the bandage to the wound - it probably itches him under there, especially because it was redressed yesterday. Hopefully just redressing it enough and having him in the cone will help. The red bandage, almost like the ace bandage (except it sticks to itself) is called Coban, and is available at vets offices, your local pharmacies (Like CVS and Walgreens) and also at petstores (vet wrap it is called). It is probably the best to wrap him in with a few layers. It depends on what she has over the actual wound though as she may not have gauze directly over the wound, she may have something that wont stick directly to it. I hope he continues to leave it alone!

Jen

 

[assibassi]

thanks @SphynxKid , yes she put gauze on it i am not sure or she put something else on it. The one we put on today before Art went to the Vet was just "non stick" gauze and blue vet wrap that I bought yesterday at the pet store. Just in case i thought !!
I am sure he will shake it like crazy again tonight ( like he did all last night keeping me up hitting me with it, because he lays directly on me ) and keeping me up. It hurts when he hits me with it !
He is sleeping right now, he had a lot of stress today again going to the Vet .. I hope too that he leaves his leg alone for 3 more days !!

 

[zoinks]

a little set back today ............................. Art stayed home and I went to work.
Middle of the day he calls me , I need to come home right now, Hansel keeps shaking his leg so much and he shook the bandage right off his leg ! He is chewing on the soar part . I ran home . On my way home i stopped and got gauze and tape and such and ran . We tried wrapping him up good, but he shook that one right off too. I do not know how tight i can go so i am afraid to make it too tight.
Well needless to say, he went to the Vet and had it rebandaged to day. She said, he needs to keep it on till Friday at least.
I myself had a dentist appt so had to run to that. Art said, by the time they got to the Vet he already chewed it a bit bloody . :cry::cry: I am so sad !! Both of us have to g o to work tomorrow and i am so afraid to come home and he has it open again and chewed open.

What can i do ?????

Oh no, so sorry to hear about the setback. I would be worried to leave him unattended all day, can anyone check on him?

If he keeps shaking it off , maybe you could put more surgical tape on it, so it is more stuck and secure?

If that doesn't work, how about a cone of shame? Maybe one of those donut ring comfy cones. To stop the chewing at it. Would that work in stopping him getting to his leg? Depends where it is maybe.

 

[Catzzzmeow]

would a bigger cone help?

 

[assibassi]

he has a cone of shame already on it. I got a larger one yesterday and it was TOO big, he got stuck just walking in the kitchen and freaked out. It was like double the size and they had no a bit larger one.
I also got some bitter apple and i think he licked it and hated it and started shaking more ?? We are not putting that on no more.
I looked at the inflatable round things , but he could slide out . He has such LONG legs, it doesnt matter what cone he has on he can lay around it and lick / bite.

 

[Catzzzmeow]

is the cone hard or soft that you are using?

 

[assibassi]

is the cone hard or soft that you are using?

hard plastic

 

[susi794]

I am glad to hear Hansel is improving, and will continue to pray that you find something that will keep that bandage on there for four more days. Could the vet give him a light sedative to make him sleepy for those last couple of days? Do you have a neighbor or family or friend you could leave him with while you are at work?

 

[Catzzzmeow]

Might try blue papery one alone or with the hard one. You can invert them the other way. Ours freaked with hard cone...paper ones you can turn down and they have no access. Might be something you can try. I had no luck with hard cones. If you need a pic let me know I can dig one out of the closet to show you if you do not know what I mean.

Patti

 

[assibassi]

Might try blue papery one alone or with the hard one. You can invert them the other way. Ours freaked with hard cone...paper ones you can turn down and they have no access. Might be something you can try. I had no luck with hard cones. If you need a pic let me know I can dig one out of the closet to show you if you do not know what I mean.

Patti

the one thats down ward right ?? i looked at that one too and it looked easy for him to get around with those darn long legs of his. I swear if he was human he would have been a show girl dancer with those legs !!
Hairy and Hansel weigh the same, but Hansel is so much taller because of his long legs its crazy !

 

[assibassi]

I am glad to hear Hansel is improving, and will continue to pray that you find something that will keep that bandage on there for four more days. Could the vet give him a light sedative to make him sleepy for those last couple of days? Do you have a neighbor or family or friend you could leave him with while you are at work?

no we just moved here in this Area and my friend moved away. My Husband might have to take a half a day tomorrow and come home at his lunch time. So that would only leave him 2.5 hours alone.

 

[andreanar]

Keeping fingers crossed that he is a good boy today!

 

[gothicmist]

Yay hansel♥

 

[Catzzzmeow]

@assibassi how did your Hansel make out today?

 

[NinaGato]

Assi, how did today go?

 

[assibassi]

@Catzzzmeow and @NinaGato -
He did fine , half the night he slept next to me , half the night he shook his Leg into me -next to me ! This morning I got up to go to work and normal he always gets up with me, he stayed under the covers. I fed the other cats and he did not get up. I got ready for work and gave him his Antibiotics right before i left the house , i knew that would knock him out for 2 hours . 3 hours later i knew Art was coming home , he took a half a day off.
I got home at night and he still slept ! He now woke up, ate and started to shake his bandage half off again. We kind of taped it there again. ONE MORE FULL DAY !! He is now laying really close to me not shaking his leg ..
before Bed time i will give him a calming treat and hope he will sleep at night. ONE MORE FULL Day we need out of him. And maybe friday a bit too...