Neo run over again :( - He's home now :-)

[fred]

Aug 23, 2014 12:48:18 GMT Karma said:

So sorry to hear this fred

Have you had any news today as to how Neo is doing?

Not yet 
The solitary vet was doing consults all morning, so they were to keep him on pain meds and stuff till lunchtime. Then sedate or anaesthetise him (depending on his state) ready to xray all of him. I'm picking Mrs fred up from work at 2.30, so if we've heard nothing we'll ring at about 3.
We won't be able to see him today, but will tomorrow - Mrs fred has just got overtime from 11 till 10 tomorrow, so shell not be seeing him. But he may be able to come home tomorrow or Monday.

If there was a problem, they'd have phoned, so I think all is ok-ish at the mo.

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Sonic did not come home with me either - he's got a bad infestation of lungworm, so he's on meds for a week, and we'll probably collect him on Saturday after Polly's acupuncture, as the lady's utility is chock full of hedgehogs.

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Pennylope is choooking round the garden, so she'll be in later to have more fluid removed!

So all in all, I think everything is as good as it can be right now.
I'll let you know about Neo as soon as I know anything. 

[prr]

Feel for you fred hope he/she recovers and learns to stop playing chicken with the traffic. Would be bereft if something like that happened to my cat Dizzy.

[Deleted]

Aug 23, 2014 13:01:40 GMT fred said:

So all in all, I think everything is as good as it can be right now.

We'll keep it all on that & improvement with all of them, fred.

[fred]

OK , so phoned them at about 3, and spoke to a nurse - they operated on him at 3am! Hes quite bright, and the vet will phone later.

Well, he's just phoned. Neo has broken his jaw in two place, snapped a canine tooth and bitten off ½ his tongue!
Had his eye not already gone, the vet said he'd probably have lost it.
They xrayed his pelvis - no problems, and he doesn't appear to have any mobility problems ( no more xrays as they wanted him out of anaesthetic sharpish).
He's got a feeding tube in his neck, in case he won't take soft food due to all the swelling.

Best thing is, I can go and see him in the morning (Mrs fred is working )

As far as I can tell, he's through the worst of it, and its now a case of recovering slowly.

[gill2009]

 Good news fred...lots of TLC now 

[Deleted]

Awwww poor little mite really did catch it, but it sounds like that's two of his nine gone & it's recovery with loads of love. Shame that your wife can't, but great that you can go & see him.

[Chrissie]

So relieved to hear he is most probably over the worst

[Deleted]

Hope wee neo is insured else that's going to be a whopper of a vet bill

[fred]

Aug 23, 2014 20:13:32 GMT @johanino said:

Hope wee neo is insured else that's going to be a whopper of a vet bill

He certainly is.

He wasn't last time he played with the cars and lost his eye - £1200 later......... Still paying the credit card off now!

Just a £65 xs to pay this time 

[Perpetua]

Enjoy your visit this morning fred, I'm sure Neo will be so pleased to see you.

[Karma]

Pleased to hear he seems to be through the worst fred just as well he's insured!

[fred]

Well, just got back from visiting! Got given the run around all day, but I suppose its the weekend.
Was with him for about 40 mins - totally spaced out on ketamine and methadone

He started purring when he realised it was me, tried licking my beard, as he does, but totally couldn't manage due to his injuries.

He'll deffo be home by the weekend, but hopefully a lot sooner. Was very pleased with what I saw, and spoke to the vet who operated on him at 3am.
I took a couple of pics, which I'll post later, as off to pick Mrs fred up from work.

[fred]

As promised, a couple of photos:




Rest assured, he looks a lot better here than he did when we took him in!

He had a little bed in a box when I arrived, so the nurse lifted it out so I could get to him better.
He promptly upped and moved, and this is how I left him last night (luckily, they had just fed him through his tube, and cleaned his cage and tray!)

[gill2009]

 Oh fred...the wee soul

I hope he continues to improve rapidly x

[igual]

Bless him he looks like he's eaten a kilo of the best catnip.
Give him a snuggles from us all at aaec