No news is good news!
Yes we haven’t posted on here in a while…that’s because Mac’s days are relatively the same now. He’s been doing great, possibly too well. He’s not supposed to play for 7-10 days, but by day 4, Mac was getting antsy. He has nothing to play with in his makeshift room (Mike’s closet) and nothing to climb on, yet he managed to find trouble. He chases his shadow up the wall, jumps on us when we go in to visit him, climbs on my head and throws his body on the floor as if he doesn’t have a broken leg or stitches. Let’s just hope everything will heal properly. Trying to keep a 5 month old kitten resting for 7-10 days just isn’t realistic.
The procedure that Mac had is what makes me nervous about him not healing properly. His femur was, well snapped off from his hip bone. Rather than placing screws to hold it in place, they just shaved down the bone at the break to make it smooth and his body will heal itself. It will never grow back as solid bone, but it will fill in with cartilage. I’m thinking if he moves too much during the time he’s not supposed to, his cartilage won’t fill in properly. But realistically, I would think they would have to consider the fact that he is a cat and is going to do what he wants to do when deciding upon his surgery. I cannot wait until his stitches come out!! 8 days…
In other family news, I’ve had my hands full with all these cats! Sunny and Mowie basically get along, until he eats her food, spills her water, or messes her litter box and she gets pissed at him. Still, her getting pissed now is about 10 notches down from what it used to be. She usually just chases him the length of the hall, then stares at him for a bit while he completely ignores her and goes on with his playing. Since I’m here all the time now to keep an eye on maniac Macky, they have both gotten used to constant attention and sleeping with me on the couch. Usually they take turns but yesterday Sunny wasn’t feeling great. Mowie was laying with me and Sunny jumped on my lap and she actually didn’t get mad. As a peace offering Sunny gently placed a paw on her…she looked suspicious, as I would be too, but she tolerated it. Then in typical ADD kitten fashion, Sunny was distracted and ran off to play.
I’ve been taking tons of pictures with Mike’s camera, but I keep forgetting to ask him where the wire is to put them on the computer…Just check back soon!