{"id":15820,"date":"2009-09-17T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T19:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15820"},"modified":"2009-09-17T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T19:13:19","slug":"poor-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/poor-kitty.html","title":{"rendered":"Poor kitty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Indy\" style=\"WIDTH: 336px; HEIGHT: 248px\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3096\/3129481231_3b66570c0b.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last evening we noticed Indy was walking around very slowly and gingerly. We checked him over, but couldn&#8217;t see anything wrong, except that he was clearly uncomfortable &#8212; not really in pain, but unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>This morning there was no improvement, so&nbsp;Margie took him down to the vet, where, between a preliminary examination and some initial x-ray results and all, we now know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> He suffered some sort of significant trauma around the base of the tail. Initial thought might have been a car. There was&nbsp;concern about injury to the pelvis and all, but&nbsp;it appears at this point that&#8217;s not the case.<\/li>\n<li> The injury is where the tail starts, right over the pelvis&nbsp;&#8212; the vertebrae in question are not fractured (yay) but the space between is dislocated (the &#8220;L7-S1 junction&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li> He was suffering from a very full bladder and some muscle tone problems down at that end, which could be spinal\/nerve damage, or could be from inflammation from the trauma.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li> He&#8217;s been catheterized, which has helped, and is on pain meds, IV fluids, and anti-inflammatories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing he&#8217;s going to be in overnight, at least.&nbsp;It&#8217;s unclear at this point how long-term\/permanent the injuries may be, and we may not know that for a few days. We have an appointment with the vet this evening to look at x-rays and learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening we noticed Indy was walking around very slowly and gingerly. We checked him over, but couldn&#8217;t see anything wrong, except that he was clearly uncomfortable &#8212; not really in pain, but unhappy. This morning there was no improvement, so&nbsp;Margie took him down to the vet, where, between a preliminary examination and some initial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/poor-kitty.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poor kitty!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41437,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/15\/kay-and-fairy-tail.html","url_meta":{"origin":15820,"position":0},"title":"Kay and &quot;Fairy Tail&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 15-Mar-14 7:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I can attest that she's been watching this (at www.dailymotion.com ) until her eyes bleed.Reshared post from +Kay HillFairy TailFor anyone who likes any form of manga, I would recommend the series Fairy Tail. \u00a0It is set in a faraway land with magic where magic is used as an everyday\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49271,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/movie-review-fairy-tail-the-phoenix-princess-2012.html","url_meta":{"origin":15820,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Fairy Tail: The Phoenix Princess&quot; (2012)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Jan-15 6:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"I got this for +Kay Hill for Christmas, as she's been so into the anime series (and dragging us along, modestly kicking), so it was only appropriate that I should watch it with her. 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