#until the MORNING OF THE SURGERY

[nimoy]

today is the day i get surgery or dont. im so nervous lol

[immunetoneurotoxin]

EMERGENCY CAT SURGERY | Pickle needs HELP!

I never thought it would be my turn to make one of these posts.

TW; CAT INJURY

Sunday night, my 6 month old kitten, pickle, had a really bad fall down a hardwood staircase after getting startled, and upon impact with the first floor, his little femur took the entire force of the impact and it snapped clean in half. My heart dropped to my stomach when I heard him thump hard against the ground and he began to cry, we immediately dropped everything and rushed him to the emergency vet nearby.

Turns out, the injury was worst than we thought. He needs orthopedic surgery to fit his femur with a metal plate. This will help him recover faster with the best successful outcome for his quality of life, but this is going to cost a staggering $4,000 dollars. He hasn't even celebrated his 1st birthday yet, he's still just a baby and this terrible accident happened. Pickle is truly my best friend, he has been my little beacon of light through it all, he is the one who sits with me while I write long chapters for my novels, and I will do absolutely anything for him.

My heart is fucking shattered seeing my normally happy and high-energy baby have such a traumatic injury like this. I know this is hard on his mental health, too. Please, if you can, help us help pickle. If anyone is willing to donate to our GoFundMe to help us alleviate the burden of surgery costs while I'm literally still desperately job hunting, it would help me and my partner more than you can imagine. If you can't financially support it at the moment, don't worry, I completely understand. But please, share this post as far out into your friends list as you can. Sharing will still help us out so so much.

Whether you donate or share, Pickle thanks you for helping his little leg get better. ❤️‍🩹

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[valoale]

My mum bought my dog a squeaky toy for Christmas and I got to wake up to my dog literally abusing the poor toy by rapidly squeezing it and I’m pretty sure I’m losing my hearing but at least my dog is having the time of her life

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

one thing abt being disabled/chronically ill that some people don’t get is that sometimes body maintenance that ensures you have the absolute minimum amount of function can also be something that takes away a lot of control and autonomy. you can argue till the cows come home that making those decisions to try and help yourself (or realistically to try to make sure things aren’t worse than they already are) is something that exhibits control and autonomy and stuff, but they can be so limiting in practice because they’re things that take up so much time but have to be done to do anything else

[kakusu-shipping]

I have discovered... A Proship Self Ship ask game spesifcially for Poly self ships..... It's in my drafts and I'm clutching it SO tightly

[harmcityherald]

Today's workstation

[rambling-robot]

I don’t know if I ate something specific to cause mild pain or if it’s just gonna be Like This when I eat pretty much anything. Not enough for me to call it an episode, but enough to complain and go ough augh. sorgery. and also get suddenly very sleepy.

[imekitty]

Normal people: I'm not worried about it.

Me with a debilitating anxiety disorder:

[bladesout]

Can I interest anyone in a wild fox mom in their inbox?

[littlebluebarista]

that one line from Honest Hearts that's like 'There's nothing you can do. We don't use chems, but I learned long ago that I'm immune to their effects.' yeah that's the only thing keeping me from actually losing it right now

[nimoy]

on my way to my pre op appt in san francisco and hopefully surgery finally on the 16th!! please WISH ME LUCK!!!

[aminta]

his tail is gonna have to have 2 inches amputated off of it so the skin can heal, it'll be short now..... :(

[nerdsbianhokie]

I cannot feel or move my arm and it is extremely disconcerting

[babygirlwolverine]

hiiii lil vet update <3

today I finished my shelter medicine rotation after performing a 6am-3pm TNR event (on a saturday) and after performing surgeries 5 days in a row this week from tuesday-saturday. on this rotation over the last 2 weeks i performed a total of 17 procedures by myself (5 cat neuters, 5 cat spays, 3 dog spays and 4 dog neuters)! I got my adult dog neuter down to just 25 minutes from start to finish, and got my cat spay time down to just over 25 minutes too! On thursday I completed a cat spay in 40 minutes, and today I was able to get it down to 25 minutes! I feel so so proud of myself! today we had this TNR event (trap neuter and release of feral cats) where the rotation 4th year students got to perform/teach 3rd students how to perform the cats spays, along with also teaching 1st year students how to do a cat neuter. I was really nervous to do the TNR today because i didn’t think i would be any good at teaching students from lower years how to do these shelter spay/neuter surgery techniques because i didn’t feel confident in performing them myself. but after today, i feel confident in performing these surgery techniques and teaching! I had several of the 3rd year students tell me i was an “amazing teacher” and that i did a “great job explaining and teaching the techniques and new skills” they didn’t know before and the 1st year students I got to help said they loved working with me and that i really helped them. I got to work on 9 surgeries today (7 spays and 2 neuters) for the TNR, one of which was a first trimester pregnant cat which made the spay a little more difficult but was a helpful surgical experience and helps to decreased the feral cat population. on this 2 week rotation I’ve got to help the community by providing free vaccines/microchips/medical care to sick patients/spay and neuter surgeries to lower income and unhoused pet owners, along with bettering my surgical skills. this rotation has been exhausting, but i’ve really enjoyed learning and becoming a better doctor! now, onto my 2 week anesthesia rotation starting on tuesday!

[creepycrunchy]

managed to eat oatmeal for dinner 😈💯

[gardenstateofmind]

it bothers me when the er will automatically deny patients food and water in case they'll need to have surgery, bc even if they Do need surgery, it's clearly not happening any time soon, like they don't need to be fasting for 24 hours or more