Freyja's had her op

**FreyjaRoMaine** · 22nd August 2010, 02:13 PM

Okay, so Freyja went into the vets Thursday to be Spayed. Felt terrible leaving her there, and she was seriously grumpy Wednesday night as she's used to having access to food 24/7. Her mood was not improved Thursday morning when she realised I wasn't going to feed her then either. But - exactly as you all said a few weeks ago - she came home and aside from being a bit groggy for an hour or two, she's completely back to normal. I'm now anxious that she's going to burst her stitches because she's tearing around in psychokitty mode as per normal. I also had a microchip implanted at the same time and that's also not causing any discomfort.

She had the post-op check up yesterday and the nurse is happy with progress, and she goes back next Saturday for a final check up - I think the stitches are supposed to dissolve so I don't think they'll need to take anything out.

I am so relieved! Thank you to everyone who patiently dolled out advice a few weeks ago, it definately helped keep me a bit relaxed about it, so I wasn't giving off any anxt vibes for Freyja to pick up on.

**harrymc** · 22nd August 2010, 08:53 PM

Glad she's ok Karen, I know what you mean about the tearing around like a mad thing, but she will only do what she feels comfortable with, bit like us after having an op we know our own limits. Hugs and cuddles to Freya x

**jckkerrison** · 23rd August 2010, 04:12 PM

Happy Freyja & a happy mummy,great x

**Linzi** · 24th August 2010, 09:54 AM

I'm glad it went well.

**WoodsideMaineCoons** · 24th August 2010, 12:13 PM

Glad it all went well - I had a couple of girls spayed a few weeks ago and they seemed to take a while to get over it whereas one of our youngsters was spayed and you wouldn't have known anything had happened to her!

**Helen & John** · 24th August 2010, 09:41 PM

Glad that all went well and you survived the pre op fast! There is nothing quite like a mc who is not allowed their breakfast I found. One thing I can assure you is that she will not open her wound, my two carried on with their usual 'gentle' play and Roxy was fine I however was a bag of nerves every time they had a mad half hour!

**Tivicoons** · 25th August 2010, 12:18 AM

I've had a few older girls spayed and always kept them in quiet rooms until the stiches were out, this might not have been necessary but I did have a boy who was a monorchid so he had to be opened up! And he did burst his stithces afterwards... it was not pretty, he had to have cage rest until he was better as the vets were worried about him SO WAS I, but he did recover completely and I became paraniod about burst stiches!

**FreyjaRoMaine** · 25th August 2010, 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by Helen & John

Glad that all went well and you survived the pre op fast! There is nothing quite like a mc who is not allowed their breakfast I found. One thing I can assure you is that she will not open her wound, my two carried on with their usual 'gentle' play and Roxy was fine I however was a bag of nerves every time they had a mad half hour!

That's very reassuring, thanks. I have to say, the vet has done an excellent job and Freyja doesn't really seem to know that anything's amiss. I suspect I'll chill once she's had her final check up this Saturday (I hope I will otherwise Husband will have me committed; he's pointed out several times that cats don't understand "watch your bloody stitches, missus"!

**jckkerrison** · 25th August 2010, 10:31 AM

Yep,we always reckon if an animal could read its post op sheet then it would make things easier for the owners,since the boss has done sub cut sutures on all spays {including dogs}we have far less problems because there is no stitches for the little darlings to get out saves a lot of panic on behalf of the parents,no emergancy phone calls to say there is a stitch missing...To begin with its the ligatures on the internal parts that are more the worry in case they slip & bleeding starts but,here we go,when I was young,the vet that I first worked for never tied off anything in cat spays he used to clamp for a few seconds let go nothing bleeding then sew up,never lost one.I know burst wounds do look awful but it is surprising how well they heal just sometimes seem to take forever,very unlucky for the little "monorchid"boy but come on someone has to have it,just look on it as being lucky for us who work there,it gives us a chance to get to know an animal a lot better & have more cuddles & kisses with them.......I Doesn't help you though I know.

**FreyjaRoMaine** · 28th August 2010, 12:19 AM

Hi all, I wondered if anyone has any advice for dealing with seroma's? I had to take Freyja back to the vets tonight - I've been checking her stitches daily since she was Spayed last week and everything's been fine; she's not fussed with them, and has barely noticed they're there. But when I checked her tonight she had quite a large lump right under the wound, about 1-1.5cm high, 2cm wide and it ran the length of the scar. She didn't seem at all perturbed by it and is her normal crazy self but it obviously alarmed me. The vet explained it was a seroma and drained 3-4mls of fluid from it and she needs to go back in 4 days to have it re-checked. It's already starting to swell up again, although no bruising, weeping or bleeding. The advice the vet gave me was to keep her quite but had no suggestions for how I'm supposed to do that to a rambunctious MC kitten with more energy than EDF, so I'm a bit stuck.
If anyone's got any suggestions that might speed up the healing process, or quiet an energetic kitten, I would be most grateful. I've read up on seroma and it sounds like it could get quite serious if it's not sorted. Thanks.