Poor Eddie Freddie

Eddie has the worst luck ever. On Sunday he was lying on the floor by the front door when a wooden heater cover fell over and landed on him. He ran away, meowing, hissing and anytime he put weight on his right foot he fell to the ground. When we went over to look at his paw and lifted it up, it just hung there, we knew it was broken. We got 2 nail files and put one on each side of his arm and wrapped it until we could get him to the vet.

We have a list of vet's in the local area that we got from the base vet because they mainly see animals preventative things. We took Eddie to a vet here before and they had an emergency phone number, but it wasn't going through. We called the other numbers listed for other vets, but all the messages were in Italian and we couldn't understand one word of what they were saying. I called a friend, Don, who speaks Italian and she jumped in her car and came over right away. She started calling for us, wrote down an emergency number that one of the Italian messages gave her and called the vet. It was about 20 minutes away, she went with us because the vet didn't speak English. He basically told us the leg was broken and there was nothing he could do about it at that point. He splinted it better than 2 nail files and tape and gave him a shot for pain.

Yesterday morning (Monday) I went to the vet that we had been to before and was there at 845am, they open at 9am. The doors were open, so I went in a spoke with the gal at reception, she told me the vet would be in at 9 and could see us then. Thank Goodness! My main concern was that they weren't going to be able to see us and we would have to keep running around finding a vet who would. They did x-rays and of course it was broken. He broke both bones in his arm, the radius and ulna, thankfully no other fractures. The vet gave him a shot for pain and also an antibiotic. He then told us best treatment for Eddie would be external fixation, which would stay on for around 45 days and we would have to bring him in every 10 days to get the pics turned. He said he will recovery very well, so that made us feel a lot better. The first appoinmtent the vet had available was for Friday, so we will take Eddie in then to get fixed up. It's going to be a long road, but he is doing really well and he is totally worth it! The vet left the splint on him and said he could roam around as he wished, just no stairs or jumping. My friend Monica had an extra baby gate, so I went and got that from her and put it up so Eddie couldn't go upstairs and the downstairs hallway has a door we can close. We made different little beds for him to chose from, he's eating and drinking well and mainly sleeping. He's such a sweet boy. I slept on the couch last night to keep an eye on him if he got stuck or hurt, but he did well. I just can't wait to get this surgery over with and get Eddie well on the road to recovery!

I took this picture of him this morning.


Eddie is a little fatty, once we get him better we need to work on his weight loss. The special food we have him on doesn't really help the matter either. When the previous vet put him on it because crystals in his urine she told us he would gain more weight...boy was she right. He is just the sweetest boy I want him to be a healthy kitty.

I will update you all later this week after his surgery and let you know how he is doing!